And on the Wikieth day, God invited Skype/Teamspeak.

----- Original Message ---- From: Ben Yates ben.louis.yates@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:57:59 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly

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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