Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

[Sankar P <psankar gnome org>]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> On 12/08/2009 10:08 AM, sankarshan wrote:
>>
>> 2009/12/8 Pierre-Luc Beaudoin<pierre-luc pierlux com>:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 03:23 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>>
>>>> But I find it interesting to know, say, what Miguel is up to these
>>>> days. I don't think it's just me...
>>>
>>> I don't believe Frederic was pointing at Miguel.  There are people who
>>> have left the Gnome community working on products that don't use any
>>> Gnome technology posting blog post/ads for said product on PGO.
>>
>> [0] Unless specific names are pointed out to the Board or, on this
>> list, the shadow boxing will be more harmful
>>
>> [1] How does one define that they have "left the GNOME community" ?
>
> Exactly.  The more I think about the issues raised in this thread, the more
> I believe a voting system (similar to what maemo is doing perhaps) may be
> all we need.
>
> Say, any viewer of p.g.o can vote a post +1 or -1.  Then we can gather two
> metrics per poster: 1) how impactful his/her posts are (avg / median / max
> number of votes).  2) how interested are readers in his/her posts (avg /
> median / min/max score.
>
> We can then have threshold to hide / collapse unpopular posts.  That part
> can even be done using JavaScript and you can the threshold on the page and
> more posts will collapse/uncollapse...
>

Really ? Most people read posts in Google reader (offline) and may not
even be interested to vote for every author.

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Sankar P
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