Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:03:03 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Magnus =?iso-8859-1?B?QuRja3N0cvZt?= <b@etek.chalmers.se>, Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Project structure reform (was: dillon@'s commit bit: I object) Message-ID: <20030205023303.GQ12525@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030204190652.04041d70@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030204120535.02835100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030204110551.00c54680@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030204120535.02835100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030204190652.04041d70@localhost>
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On Tuesday, 4 February 2003 at 19:27:58 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 04:19 PM 2/4/2003, Magnus Bäckström wrote: > >> Sketch a structure you believe would work in practice. > > One way is to use the approach taken by science fiction conventions > (such as the WorldCon -- the World Science Fiction > Convention). Anyone can, relatively cheaply, purchase an attending > or voting membership in the convention, and then is able to vote for > the Hugo Awards (a collection of science fiction literary awards) > and for the locations of future conventions. The registration money > is used to fund gatherings of the group and cover administrative > costs. I'm oversimplifying how it works here, but suffice it to say > that it's a very clever, democratic system I'd call that plutocracy, not democracy. What if Microsoft sent thousands of people to join? > Regular votes of the membership should be taken to elect a governing > board which is above, and distinct from, the development team in the > organizational structure. The Board would have under it not only the > development organization but also teams that do end user advocacy, > documentation, release engineering, security, fundraising, Web > services, and relations with corporations (e.g. securing tech docs > that enable driver support). And, modulo plutocracy, how does this differ in principle from the FreeBSD core team? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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