On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 02:33:02PM -0500, Lynn Winebarger wrote: > > > SPI is a nonprofit and thus the term stockholders does not > > > apply and might give a wrong impression. > > What term would you use to convey the method of voting that SPI is trying > > to achieve? > > I thought the cooperative and its members model was pretty apt. I do, too, personally. I was wondering if he had a better one, though. > > Debian voter turn out for elections seems to be around 22-28% unless it's a > > major election. For example, the leader election was about 50% (give or > > take). Since the board is supposed to do most of the grunt work, if it's > > not of the same caliber of interest, more discussion needs to go into it or > > the propsal needs to be reconsidered. > > > Interesting - what are the requirements for a Debian voting membership? > Here it seems the voting will be limited to contributing members, who may > (or may not) have a higher interest in participating. And the model here > seems like it will be more like the committees do a good deal of the grunt > work. Basicly, be an accepted Developer.. ie, be working on some part of Debian. Right, so I questions the need to lower the quorum figures. I like where they're at or I'd even raise them in the case of BOD additions/subtractions. > > Lynn > http://www.free-expression.org/ > > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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