While the specs council vote is designed as a recommendation to the
membership, I'm also trying to capture the current ad hoc involvement
of community members who are not members of the Foundation. I imagine
it would work something like this:
1) Proposers work on building consensus around their proposal on the [email protected]
mailing list working toward the final version
2) Propoers submit the proposal to the Specs Council which begins the
15 day period
3) Sometime within the 15 days (ideally as soon as possible) the Specs
Council creates the vote within the tool designating it as a Specs
Council + Community (anyone) vote
4) An email is sent to the [email protected] list announcing the
recommendation vote, noting that only specs council members have
binding votes, but encouraging anyone who wants to to vote
5) Once all of the Specs Council members have voted or 15 days have
elapsed, whichever comes first, the results are shown at a public URL
showing how each council member voted and aggregated counts of how the
community voted
6) The Foundation Membership approval vote is created and runs
normally also providing a link to the results of the Specs Council +
community vote
--David
On Jan 26, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:
David Recordon 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?
It was my understanding that the specs council vote was essentially
a recommendation to the community on how to vote, so it seems like
the specs council vote ought to happen first, rather than in
parallel with the community vote.
Displaying the specs council result on the voting page for the
community vote would be good, though. I assume that right now that
could be done less elegantly by simply including the specs council
result in the text that introduces the vote.
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