[Foundation-l] Board-announcement: Board Restructuring

[Tim Landscheidt]

Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

>>  > I have spent about a decade working in election campaigns,
>>  > and, to repeat the "meme": You cannot give orders to volun-
>>  > teers.

> I see no sense that that is true.

Well, I see sense in it. And I have seen many student volun-
teers not showing up at events before 9:00, many volunteers
not preparing presentations on topics they did not like,
many volunteers not coming back the second day after they
discovered on the first day that posting bills can be quite
tiring and canvassing very frustrating, etc., etc., etc. If
your methods had a higher success rate, please share them
with me. I'd be very interested in them.

  The only organizations with a working approach I know of
are churches and sects who condemn non-compliants to Dante's
Inferno. But unfortunately, my divine qualities are a bit
underdeveloped.

> [...]
>>  >   The US presidential election is a prime example: Polls
>>  > show that supporters of the Democratic Party will not only
>>  > cease their commitment if their favorite candidate is not
>>  > nominated, they will even vote for *another* party's candi-
>>  > date.

> Are you saying that all voters are "volunteers"?  I guess this is true
> in a sense, as one is not required by law to vote (in the US).  But
> when I referred to Obama volunteers I was thinking more of the people
> who work directly on the campaign.
> [...]

You will see the same phenomenon with people working direct-
ly on the campaign, even if for example Obama would take the
second place on a double ticket.

  And I would consider every voter for Obama a volunteer un-
less one is required by law to vote for him.

Tim