FESCo elections
Karsten Wade
kwade at redhat.com
Sun Jun 24 00:14:49 UTC 2007
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:00 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Basically, you should be able to vote if you are under FESCo's
> authority. You should not be able to vote if you are not.
The problem I have with this is that FESCo, unlike all bodies save the
Board, makes decisions that affect the entire project.
I think "affects" should be the criteria, not "authority."
Probably what is bugging me the most about this is that I want to be
able to vote for FESCo members. Not only that, but in the last FDSCo
elections, I wanted the pool of eligible voters to be all of FAS.
I cannot think of a single good reason to divide Fedora contributors
into voting pools, but I can think of lots of good reasons we should be
able to vote across sub-project steering committees.
All of the talk about political v. technical are spurious. This is not
a government, we are not a physical nation. Decisions that affect all
of us are a split of technical, social, community, etc.
Why cling to preconceived notions of how a "democracy" works? Look at
ancient Athens, the "first democracry" -- as long as you were a free man
and the eldest son of a property owning family.[1] We actually are free
to reinvent the notion ourselves.
- Karsten
[1] At least they, unlike the US Congress, actually had to go fight
the wars they voted to have.
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