Hi, On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 5:23 AM Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> wrote:
Hi
On 12/10/20 12:02 AM, James Ruffer wrote:
Adrien Glauser,
Thank you for sending this reply as I was composing almost the same email. From the outside looking in, I too would suggest that the rules be updated giving the ability for a cleaner(less messy) election process. We use https://aragon.org/ <https://aragon.org/> which might be overkill for this group but it works really well for another group that needs consensus and complete transparency for our elections.
I was wondering (playing with the idea in my head only, tbh) if there were ways to gamify / tokenize the openSUSE community contribution and then use DAO like structures with ZK snarks (to preserve privacy with strong security guarantees) for the governance part, we are exploring that for one new project also, it is quite fun. You can combine fungible and non-fungible tokens, but it is currently a research project in very early stages. By the end of next year there will be many DAO-like structures out there for all kinds of community based things.
That does look interesting, especially if we reach the point of having a foundation. Currently the Heroes team maintain an instance of the Helios Voting Software [1] that we have use for board elections and other topics where we require community consensus such as the Name change vote. It does an excellent job of providing privacy and transparency for our elections.
And I hope we stay for Helios for a little longer, because that is the argument I use about "snake-oil salesmen" who say that elections need "blockchain" :-) that it can be 90% accomplished without the used of an blockchain and you need blockchain mostly only for elections where you are afraid of vote censorship, our application of it saved my but in few debates. But the progress in zero-knowledge cryptography over the past decade is truly remarkable!
-- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net
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