Re: loomio

[אנטולי קרס נר <tombackton gmail com>]

I agree, random people can't have the same influence on votes like the
people actually seriously involved, but like Sri and Marco said, there
are already existing cases in which such a system can be very useful.

Seif offered to try it with the Gnome Music team, but anyone else who
wants to give it a try is very welcome too. I couldn't set up an account
because I don't personally belong to any team so I can't speak for a
whole team, but signing up is quite easy: we just need to fill a form
for beta-testing it (currently all organizations using loomio are
considered "private beta testers", although it is already used
successfully by organizations of all sizes):

https://www.loomio.org/group_requests/new

        

        Anatoly

On ג', 2013-04-16 at 23:30 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-04-16 at 22:08 +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote:
> > So you want to have random people suddenly join, be of the decision and
> >         have equal say? I find that a little bit weird.
> >
> > As opposed to the method that we have now which is..?
>
> (I cannot speak for all teams, as I'm not in all teams. 
> Anybody feel free to correct me please.)
>
> Most teams have meetings sometimes, mostly IRC based (though some also
> have phone or Google Hangouts as far as I know). 
> Except for board and release-team, team membership is not exclusive /
> defined, and (except for board) meetings are public. Newcomers and
> lurkers are welcome to meetings and to provide input to influence
> decisions, but when it comes to "hard" voting (if decision making
> process is not consense-based) I'd expect only "established" people to
> feel like taking part anyway, or at least expect their votes to have way
> more weight. In the end that's how I understand meritocracy.
>
> Also see section "5.5.2 Community" of
> http://www.dgsiegel.net/foss-development-processes
>
> andre