On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:59:06PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > > Do you think it's likely for it to go on for more than one repetition? > > > I've no real idea but it might lead to a dead end. And having > > > infinite nominations/elections because there are e.g. "only" 10 and > > > not 16 persons seems to defeat the whole idea. > > (Just a note - my S2 boundary isn't really arbitrary, it's basically a > > function of the quorum.) > > (Point taken but it's still a deliberate decision to say > count($members_of_soc_ctte)=round(Q).)
(I was just correcting the adjective used - "arbitrary" isn't the same as "deliberate" :) > > I have pondered this previously, but I decided to have a try like that > > still. If we allow the bar to be dropped arbitrarily down from the > > quorum-based quota, then how do we decide how many are sufficient and > > how many are not? > > I don't have an answer ready but IMO S2 (or Q) is not more magical > then 5 or 13 or 42. > > I guess at the end the size of the committee should: > * depend on its goals and tasks > * allow the group to work as a _group_ > > (The other question is of course what happens if there are not enough > candidates/winners. Maybe an (equally arbitrary) minimum size for a > second round could be defined?) I've discussed in the previous thread why I thought 1000->16 or 2000->23 were decent; but that was more in light of an upper limit, rather than a lower limit. Only when I started writing the exact rule into the constitution text did I realize that there lower limit needs to be thought about :) If there is a serious doubt whether we would be able to elect that many people in less than two rounds of elections (a second round would be bearable; a third would be a real bother) then I would have to be leaning towards either: * Allowing a variable number of members, to a point. I was originally thinking that a fixed size needs to be set in order to have a clear understanding of what the membership in the ctte means; also adding variability adds more nuance into the constitution definition so it's harder to write. * Or cutting the fixed size further down, but that sounds like a workaround. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]