I'm an OSMF member, and I'm in favor of a reboot that would establish a completely new board. I think that the existing board is individually capable but as a group will never get along.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Simon Poole <si...@poole.ch> wrote: > Particularly because the "far more efficient" is clearly false (for one > compare number of fundamental reforms at all level of government that > stick in Switzerland vs. other countries, particularly those with > two-party systems). The Swiss system is fairly fine-tuned though and > lots of things work smoothly because the direct democratic system > exists, not because it is invoked. > > But this is really really off topic > > Simon > > PS: one thing that confuses non-residents a lot is that for example tax > increases in general (gross simplification naturally) are accepted in > popular votes here. > > PPS: mandatory cultural dissonance pointer: Switzerland doesn't even > have a head of state in any conventional sense of the word and still is > by many metrics one of the most successful countries in the World. > Invoking the image that things can't work without a "leader" telling > people what to do, tends to get us rolling on the floor with laughter. > And that even without going as far as collecting Godwin points. > > > Am 28.10.2014 12:51, schrieb Pieren: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Kathleen Danielson > > <kathleen.daniel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Direct democracy is cumbersome and often lacks nuance, > >> which is why it's so infrequently used. Representative democracies and > their > >> ilk are far more common simply because they are far more efficient. > > > > Ouch. Never say that to our swiss friends ;-) > > > > Pieren > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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