Mitch Wand wrote: > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "same-day, same-message registration". > The registration process as currently envisaged requires only a single > confirmation email, much as is done by many other web services.
I'm saying you don't have to separate the registration process from the vote. Having two separate processes doubles the number of deadlines voters have to become aware of and to meet. We are told, for example, that Gerry Sussman registered to vote but "flaked at the last minute and failed to submit." [1] There were nine others who registered but didn't vote [2]. The number of people who became interested enough to vote after the registration deadline had passed was probably greater, but we have no way of knowing that number. The confirmation email could come after the vote. That might delay the announcement of the vote by a few days, but you'd win that back and a lot more by deleting the registration period from your schedule. At the very least, you could accept registrations sent on the same day as a vote. The process just doesn't have to be as complicated for voters as you are making it. It isn't as though you have reason to expect widespread election fraud or malfunctioning voter machines. Simplifying the process for voters, even if you think it might complicate the process a bit for yourselves, would be a win. > I would like to hear any concrete suggestions that Will, or anyone else, > has to reach out to the other members of the Scheme community. Your announcements could emphasize that you encourage participation by all members of the Scheme community, not just those who support the language described by the R6RS. As things stand now, I fear the prevailing assumption is that this process is relevant only to the R6RS subculture. Will [1] http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2007-October/003392.html [2] Registrants who didn't vote: David van Horn, Dominique Boucher, Etienne Bergeron, Geoffrey S Knauth, Gerald Jay Sussman, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema, Kent Pitman, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen, Martin Gasbichler, Thien-Thi Nguyen. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
