On 2/8/07, Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/8/07, Sriram J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/8/07, Anupam Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On 2/8/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On 08-Feb-07, at 4:38 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: > > > > > > > > > this mailing list and I did not see a very public discussion on the > > > > > mailing list before everything was done and over. The "committee" > > > > > related decisions of ILUGD have been mostly off the list. > > > > > > > > not so - agenda is always disclosed on the list. discussion is asked > > > > for. Even for 'committee meetings' all are invited. And decision is > > > > by majority. Minutes and list of attendees are also always posted on > > > > the list. You need to retract. > > > > > > > > what Anupam has said is common of any democracy including India where the > > people who never vote are the most vocal critics of any decision. > > > > IMHO ILUGD should introduce postal ballots so that people can influence > > the majority opinion without actually taking the trouble to be part of the > > majority. > > > You meant to be satirical but I think your suggestion is an excellent > one! Well during election times do you see people being asked to come > to Delhi and visit the Rashtrapati Bhavan in case they want to be a > part of the electoral process? Before taking any decision, you do not > take a decision and "inform" the members of the same, you give the > members the details of the situation and "ask" for their opinion and > continue to do so until some semblance of a consensus on a possible > course of action emerges. Especially for ILUGD which started out as a > mailing list, why have voting / decision-making behind closed doors. > It's not very difficult to have an online voting setup, why don't we > have that?
Well if 1000 votes go in favour (by fence sitters) of participating & a 20 votes against it..by folks who are actually "in" delhi & will have to ultimately do the show...do all the hard work.. just for the sake that ..a 1000 lazy bums had time to to click on "Yes" !! Doesnt sound too good!!! Karunakar _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
