Re: Draft of Proposal for the GNOME Foundation.

[kelly poverty bloomington in us]

On 14 Jul 2000 12:16:00 -0700, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com> said:

>I think it should be possible to have a recall vote at any time, but
>there should be a reasonably high threshold for even having the
>vote. I think 10% of membership is actually a fairly high bar to
>pass.

A common practice on recall votes is to require that the call for a
vote be supported by a substantial fraction of the membership.  The
proper fraction is dependent on the size of the membership and the
degree to which the membership tends to participate.  Generally, you
want to require the support of at least as many members as would be
enough to carry a quorum in a vote.

>If you elect it as a slate, we can trust the people who come up with
>slates to try to create balanced, representative ones. 

I question the merits of that assertion.

Kelly