Discussion on voting systems

[Leo Franchi]

Hi all,

The transition team has been discussing schemes for how to allocate  
voting power amongst the body of voters.

We are bringing this out for further discussion, mostly because us 4  
have not coalesced on a single decision.

The two options are as follows:

1) 1-vote per person
2) 1-vote + bonus per person.

bonus is calculated as follows:

"
* Every voting member starts out with 1 point as the base
* Added to this is the percentage of active contribution time, with
the project lifetime being 100%

The equation:

1.0 + ( 1.0 / months_of_project_lifetime *  
months_of_active_contribution )


Example calculation for a contributor who has been with the project
for 12 months, assuming that the project is 72 months old overall:

1 + ( 1 / 72 * 12 )  = 1.17

So a completely new voting member would start out with 1.0, while the
maximum achievable score is 2.0.
"

Please do reply and get some discussion flowing. To separate myself  
from the raw facts, i'll be replying with my own personal feelings in  
another email.

leo

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Leo Franchi				(650) 704 3680
Tufts University 2010

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