Re: [tdf-discuss] LibOCon proposals

Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have received two proposals for this years' LibreOffice Conference 
> - thank you very much for your applications!
>
> My proposal for the voting process is as follows:
>
> - I would like to make the proposals public immediately, by uploading 
> them to the wiki, and sending out a short notice to announce@tdf
>
> - For the timeline of a week or so, the community can ask direct 
> questions to the proponents, should something be unclear in their 
> proposals
>
> - After that, we will initiate the voting
>
> - For voting, I propose to use a simple majority vote, i.e. the 
> proposal having more votes will host the conference
>
> - The candidate not succeeding this year can propose for 2013, but it 
> will not automatically be preferred there (since we already called for 
> 2013 proposals as well)
>
> - Where I'm a bit undetermined is the voting scheme itself
>
> - One option is to allow every subscriber to the announce@ lists to 
> vote (after e-mail confirmation in the voting system itself),
>
> - another one is to allow only TDF members to vote. The latter one 
> would exclude "joke" votings like we have seen them in the past, but 
> exclude many eligible people.
>
> - A third option would be to send out a voting invitation to everyone 
> subscribe to a set of mailing lists (e.g. discuss@, announce@ and so 
> on), but send them a private token. That way, only active people in 
> the project could vote, but TDF membership would not be necessary.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
I like the third option, there are many of us, like myself who have been 
active on the Discuss list, the Users list and others, since long before 
the LO fork, but are not programmer/developers.  All I have been able to 
do is to distribute the program on disk, and install it on every machine 
I built for my customers, (hundreds of them) over the years. 

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