[cab-discuss] Nominations?

[Michelle Olson]

Hi Al,

Thanks for your response. I'm less concerned about the mechanism than 
the communication and expectations around it. A test of the mechanism 
that includes *everyone* who is eligible is the only way to know if 
what we've built with the constitution and voting mechanism will 
really work for the larger group. If you don't test it with 'the 
people' before you ask them to use it to make a decision about their 
leadership, I submit that it will not work. If and when folks complain 
about the rules or whatever, I don't think we can say 'but it works 
for Apache'! :) 

I'm not trying to be flip, but I'm remembering the Contributor Awards, 
which seemed like a totally clear-cut, simple thing to determine and 
it was a shame to watch 'in action'. I'd hate to repeat that history. 
If you send out the voting details for the constitution (which is what 
the community has asked for), run that vote with success, and ratify 
the document we'll be in a great position to determine new leadership. 
Adn ultimately, I think it will be faster that way because we'll avoid 
all the FUD and confusion...OK maybe not all of it :) but the worst of 
it. THanks for listening.
 
-Michelle  

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>On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michelle Olson wrote:
>
>> I think we should vote on something, with the new mechanism, before 
we
>> vote in the election. It is important to test the new mechanism and
>> our assumptions about how it will work. So, I'd vote to ratify the
>> Constitution first, to be sure it works well for everyone, then 
vote
>> to elect new membership on a separate ballot.
>
>Hi Michelle!  If you're concerned about the voting mechanism itself, 
I
>don't think that we need to run an actual vote to confirm whether it 
works
>- since it's based on the same code/facility used by Apache.Org.  A 
simple
>dummy test conducted by a selected group of test voters will confirm 
if
>the software works as intended.
>
>Regards,
>
>Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
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