[Foundation-l] Voting suffrage criteria (established members should be able to vote)

[Florence Devouard]

Michael Snow wrote:
> Over time, the elections are also showing the same edit-count creep that 
> manifests itself in the selection of administrators on mature projects. 
> The effect is to increasingly exclude people who should have been 
> considered part of the community. I don't have easy solutions for how to 
> address this while still preventing manipulation through sockpuppet 
> accounts and the like, but this is one reason we added a second method 
> for the community to choose board members through the chapter selection 
> process. In the chapter setting, participation is more clearly related 
> to individual identity, and it goes some distance toward offering the 
> membership system that was originally contemplated, whose failure to 
> implement some people still lament.
> 
> --Michael Snow


And what if... we tried making the Foundation a membership based 
organization ?

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