On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:38 +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
On 05/03/2008, Justin Haygood <jhaygood@reaktix.com> wrote:
I would be interested if anyone can propose a system whereby non-members can also vote.
Some sort of personally identifiable (and verifiable) information could be requested, such as a legal name, phone number, and address. The phone number and address can readily be verified against each other (the number +1 905-XXX-YYYY can be associated with Ontario, Canada for instance), and you can always call it to verify the person on the other end is the person that voted.
Well you can confirm that a voter is a real person easily enough by this or other methods, but how do you confirm that they have anything at all todo with the openSUSE project? It would be like allowing the entire world to vote in one country's elections.
Maybe require a minimum membership requirements such as: 1. User signed the guiding principles at least 2 months prior to voting 2. User contributed in verifiable significant way, i.e., reported bugs, fixed bugs, translated stuff, helped people on IRC, etc... Even if a user doesn't use openSUSE as a primary distribution, but does contribute to the greater good of the openSUSE project, they'd be allowed to vote. However, this would leave out users of openSUSE who do nothing more than consume the project as a whole. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org