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

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
When you replace the current model where involvement is replaced by being a
member, there will be people who will not become members for all kinds of
reasons. Involving people in the processes of our organisation is tricky.
There is no silver bullit.

What should be obvious though is that when a profile is associated with an
e-mail account, something that people are explicitly urged to do in order to
be able to help with lost passwords, this whole particular issue would not
exist. When people use the existing methods that allow for this issue, there
is no need for membership or anything..

Largely the original issue is a non issue. Or what is it that I am missing ?
As to sock puppets, they have a high nuisance value. There are few good
reasons to have them and they do more harm then good.

Thanks,
     GerardM

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 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 ?
>
> Ant
>
>
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