On 05/03/2008, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Pascal Bleser
wrote: Secondly, we do think that members should have a higher weight, as they have signed the Guiding Principles and are recognized as active contributors. Maybe we should even restrict the right to vote to "official members". To be discussed.
The logistics on this are going to be tough. We should probably limit voting to members who have signed the Guiding Principles as we need some way to verify that each person only gets one vote.
Defining the electorate is indeed difficult. Signing the guiding principles is one of the requirements for membership, so all members will have signed them. There is no problem with allowing members to vote. There is a problem if we want to allow people who are not members to vote. Anyone may also sign the guiding principles by creating an account on users.opensuse.org - There is no way of preventing one person from creating hundreds of accounts on users.opensuse.org, or that they actually agree to the guiding principles just because they tick the box on users.opensuse.org. I can't think of a good way of allowing people who are not members to vote without risking allowing people to sabotage the openSUSE elections and vote in someone unsuitable. There are ways to reduce the risk. e.g. multiple rounds of voting; voters approved by members; However, these do not really solve either the problem of a board-elected electorate, or the problem of malicious people influencing the outcome. I would be interested if anyone can propose a system whereby non-members can also vote. -- Benjamin Weber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org