Re: Yes to Publicity! Not to Anonimit! Was: Re: GNOME Foundation Annual Elections - proposal

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:41:12AM -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 05:43, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >   No smiley, I really don't see where you're going and why you're driving
> > this, I'm starting to get nuts over the issue to the point of being
> > disinterested in the matter. This again can be view as a common abuse
> > of the democratic process in which a minority makes a lot of fuss about
> > an issue nobody really cares much about. I want to get a community
> > sense, not an individual opinion taking over all discussions.
> > 
> There seem to be a board that is trying to push a change in election
> procedure. There do not seem to be much support for this issue being
> voiced by others. There are a few opposing voices. And the exact reason
> the board is proposing the change could theoretically be used to explain
> the absence of any more opposition to the proposal (ie. people do not
> dare speak up against the board.)

  Okay, I'm fed up. If you have an accusation to do w.r.t. some hidden
agenda the current board members may have please do so in public :-(
  I hope you're running the same kind of opposition to anonymous
voting in the other democratical instances you might be part of
(governement or other associations) !
  Anonymous voting protects the individuals. I want this protection
for the foundation members. The board is the logical instance to
push for those changes (per the bylaws, please read them !), I think
we are doing our job, per our mandate, per my own candidacy statements
from the 3 last years too. I want the individuals to be the ones 
responsible, anonymous voting offers them the protection which might
be needed in some circumstances. I operate per the charter, and for
what I stated I would work on. If you dislike this don't vote for me
(assuming I candidate again which is getting really unlikely) or people
who were proponent of this, that's how democracy work, or manage to
get enough people to voice opposition so we run a vote on this.
  Now please read the bylaws, and realize we are simply opperating
accordingly ! Trying to insinuate an hidden agenda is pretty bad and
I take it personally :-(

Daniel

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