On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:15:34AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > In elections for governments, it is a custom to have just before the > elections a debate among the most important parties, one has reviews of > party's viewpoints by commentators in newspapers et al. The reason is > that the vast majority of the electorat doesn't have the time nor > expertise to read and judge on the full program of those where one can > vote for, because they are lengty, and complicated. One also often has a > 'kieswijzer', a tool where a few dozen questions about your opinion are > asked, handling exactly about the differences among parties, which at > the end gives a nice chart which party has the same viewpoint, and which > not. > > Within Debian, some of these problems for voters exist too. The social > contract is relatively lengty, considering every word can be important. > Also, I think I can safely assume that the majority of DD's are no > experts in legalese texts dissecting, where it is very important to > exactly know the meaning of certain words. Heck, the majority(?) of DD's > doesn't even have English as their native language. Thus, also for DD's > it can easily happen they don't have time nor the necessary expertise to > fully understand what a give ballot is about, even if the ballot itself > is complete. > > Therefore, I think also within Debian, it can be very useful to have > objective pro's and con's of proposals, a debate between a few > knowledgable people (not a 200+ messages flamewar, that doesn't help), > etc. I notice that this vote, this is a bit happening more or less > already by means of those vote advices, though not all of them are very > objective. That was kinda the point of the thread... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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