Seems like getting more bang for our buck from that tool makes plenty of sense. This also seems like a good reason for open sourcing the tool sooner than later -- providing opportunities for folks to contribute patches where necessary to enable these kinds of changes (though open sourcing the app will not necessarily cause code to be written, I realize).
Chris On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, David Recordon <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm wondering what it would take to make the voting tool be able to help > out the specs council? Like other votes, some of the challenges are sifting > through an email thread collecting votes, getting people to realize that > they're supposed to vote in a certain thread and mixing the input between > the community and council members. What I'd propose is that we add the > ability to vote on proposals to the voting tool in such a way where anyone > (including non-members) can vote though the results are displayed split up > between the council member votes and the wider community votes (a bit like > how the US election has the popular vote and the electoral vote). Ideally > this would be extended to the final approval vote as well so that anyone > could vote but only the votes from Foundation members would be counted. > > Who should I work with to make this happen? Other ideas on how this should > work? > > Thanks, > --David > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > -- Chris Messina Citizen-Participant & Open Web Advocate-at-Large factoryjoe.com # diso-project.org citizenagency.com # vidoop.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private
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