It'll work best if it incorporates video chat. There are all sorts of problems with purely text-based communication; people work together best when they can see each other.
(I know, I know, there's no open source video chat, right? There's no open source monitor manufacturer either; that doesn't mean I use a dotmatrix printout to see what the output is.)
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard pathoschild@gmail.com wrote:
Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com wrote:
If it would make you happier, the consensus provision can be changed to a 60% majority.
We can rarely achieve a 60% majority consensus for most issues on this list, and its membership is smaller than that of an all-inclusive assembly. Depending on voting also makes numerical superiority more important than meaningful debate, so that a cultural or special-interest minority (likely including en-Wikipedia) would dominate the community through the assembly using numerical superiority. Reaching many bad decisions due to poor representation is worse than reaching few good decisions.
-- Yours cordially, Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)
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