on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:26:30 -0800 Carl Worth wrote: > >On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:44:11 +0100, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Since voting is officially ending today I have cast my votes just now... > >I might make one suggestion regarding this point. If you (and a >significant number of the general membership), feel that there is >insufficient information available to vote, then a legitimate option is >to not vote. The by-laws do require a quorum of the membership for the >vote to be valid. (Looks like the quorum requirement is 25%.) >
I do not think suggesting that a member just "not vote" is an appropriate response from a Board Member to a legitimate concern about the election. Isn't it the Board's (and it's members') responsibility to ensure that the membership is sufficiently well-informed about the issues and the candidates for election to be able to exercise their voting rights. A better response might be to find out if this was a widespread opinion, and then re-consider the closing of voting until the membership was better informed? Accepting membership on the X.Org Board means accepting responsibility to respond to members' legitimate concerns - if not to anticipate them. And you asked to be elected. Leon Shiman Associates Incorporated 163 Tappan Street Brookline MA 02445 USA office: +1.617.277.0087 mobile: +1 617.642.5366 [US] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
