[ogb-discuss] ENOQUORUM responses?

[Garrett D'Amore]

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Garrett D'Amore
> <gdamore at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>   
>>  I think the time has come to draft a constitution amendment limiting the
>>  number of CC's that each CG can nominate, thereby ensuring that no one
>>  CG (or small group of CGs) can effectively stymie the governance
>>  process.  (Or for that matter, take an unfair majority in any electoral
>>  process involving the full membership.)  I'd also suggest that groups
>>  which require CC votes for "internal" matters to the CG might want to
>>  allow non-core Contributors (i.e just C's) for such matters.
>>     
>
> Instead of trying to figure out why people who are CCs didn't show up
> and addressing that issue head-on, let's instead kick them out so only
> your favored CGs get to stock the electorate?  That's certainly not a
> sign of trust in the CG leaders nor in the faith of your fellow CCs.
>   

You misunderstood me.   I'm not talking about restricting any CG from 
participating, only limiting *every* CG to some "maximum" number of CC 
grants (for the purposes of governance).  Think of it as each state 
having only two Senators.

And obviously, such a change could not be made *now*, but only effected 
for some future point in time.

Right now there is *no* limit on CC grants, and if one CG wanted to 
"stock the electorate" with 500 CC grants, they could.   This is not a 
desirable (IMO) situation.

If anyone can offer any reasonable solution to the immediate crisis, 
which is getting participation up, please do so.  I still firmly believe 
that apathy (at least in the larger group), and poorly chosen CC grants 
(perhaps because the governance responsibility that comes with a CC 
grant wasn't clear) is the larger reason why turn-out is so low.

There are a huge number of talented and valuable folks who contribute a 
lot of effort but who also have little interest in anything outside a 
fairly limited range concerns.  These don't make great CC grants, IMO.

    -- Garrett