On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:07:30 +0200, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On to, 2007-01-25 at 16:27 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Why don't I think it is a good idea? Well, because, unlike >> technical issues, social issues are very subjective. Also, social >> and cultural norms differ widely from culture to culture; which >> culture shall be represented in, and whose norms shall be enforced >> by this social/cultural committee? > That's easy: we should enforce (assuming that is not too strong a > word) the social and cultural norms that we, as a community, agree > on. The comparison to technical policy is not entirely invalid: we > make up our technical policy ourselves, too. But the technical issues are often not subjective; while social issues almost always are subjective, and very very heavily influenced by cultural bias. > We can determine social policy by discussion and, if necessary, by > voting. I'd rather see consensus, and, more specifically, see the > soc-ctte spell out the social norms and if the developer body > disagrees with it, and can't convince the soc-ctte via discussion, > they can force a change via a GR. Voting implies the tyranny of the majority; and I would expect the social and cultural norms to be heavily biased towards white, male, occidental euro-american social and cultural modes; since such is the composition of the voting population. I am not sure I want to be governed by such a social /cultural policy. manoj -- Programmers do it bit by bit. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]