Re: "Private Foundation-List" Petition for referendum

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Been more than two weeks that the petition has been up and it did not attract 
support of 10% of membership as required by the charter.  The request is 
dropped as far as I'm concerned.  Thanks everyone for the support and/or 
useful discussion.

behdad

On 12/18/2009 09:27 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> On 12/15/2009 10:58 AM, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Le mardi 15 décembre 2009, à 11:57 +0330, Behnam Esfahbod ZWNJ a écrit :
> > > Also, is a referendum really necessary to create a new members-only
> > > mailing list? Noting that becoming membership and participation is
> > > always optional.
> >
> > It's not necessary to hold a vote to create a list, but I think Behdad's
> > point by doing this is to see if there's real interest from the
> > membership.
> >
> > Behdad, are you fine if we put a time limit for your proposal (2 weeks,
> > 1 month, whatever)? Just to make sure we know when to close the topic in
> > case there are not enough members signing the petition -- I'd hate to
> > have someone come again in 2 years and say "hey, we now have 50
> > signatures for this", while we will have all moved on ;-)
>
> Ok, lets wait till Monday. That would be one week.
>
> behdad
>
> > Vincent