Voting rights - the GNOME way

[Vadim Plessky]

Hi Harri!

On Thursday 21 November 2002 3:54 pm, Harri Porten wrote:
|  Hi !
|
|  In case we'll discuss setting up voting procedures for anything one day:
|
|  Criteria for voting rights will be an important factor and it doesn't hurt
|  to look at what others do to verify eligibility. While we don't have (and
|  maybe don't want) something like the GNOME foundation (with a board of
|  directors) it may still useful to look at their criteria and procedures to
|  have voting rights. After all we'd also like to have a forum with a fair
|  representation of KDE members.

Isn't that KDE E.v. for?

|
|  Point 3 of the rules for their next election says
|
|  "Members of the GNOME Foundation as of November 1, 2002 are eligible to
|  vote in the election. Anyone who has made a contribution to GNOME can
|  apply for membership by completing the application."

Frankly, I'd like to avoid any kind of *elections* or *politics* in KDE as 
long as possible.
I really enjoy KDE's non-political nature.

|
|  The application form at
|
|    http://foundation.gnome.org/membership-form.php
|
|  states that the candidate should have "contributed to a
|  non-trivial improvement in the GNOME Project" and asks for details. It
|  also suggest to name indivduals "who can help the membership committee
|  determine your eligibility" or other factors that should be considered.
|
|  The application will be reviewed by a committee. It bases its decision on
|  the Membership Policy described here
|
|    http://foundation.gnome.org/membership-policy.html

This sounds quite close to XFree86 Board (which I became member of recently).
I still haven't seen significant benefit from it, but I am looking forward 
with optimism :-)
Recent threads on <kde-cafe> demonstrated, that while KDE developer community 
(and long-time KDE users) is quite stable, many people have quite different 
opinions on "real life" issues (like politics, religion, etc.).
We will face all those issues immediately, if we go for "KDE  
committee/board".
Are you sure that we would be able to overcome those issues?
I am not so confident in this.

|
|  Harri.
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