Re: Referenda system

[Baris Cicek <baris teamforce name tr>]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 00:04 +0300, Lucas Rocha wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The board is about to propose a referenda for shifting the election
> cycle back six months. The topic has been already discussed in
> foundation-list:
>
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2007-August/msg00025.html
>
> Jeff still needs to make a more structured/formal proposal in
> foundation-list but I'd like to know how easy would it be to setup an
> instance of our voting system for this new referenda. Baris, I guess
> you have more details? Vincent?
We need set a deadline for last membership renewal day. Once this has
been set, there's not much hassle to run a referandum. It's basically,
getting list of voters, creating tokens, mailing them and filling out
necessary fields on the mysql table. 

> Let me know what needs to be done and can work on getting things
> actually done. The idea (just an idea for now) is to have the votes by
> the end of september.
That's possible since referendum is just consisted of yes/no votes, we
won't need any prior time like asking questions or waiting for
candidates etc. 
> Thanks!
>
> --lucasr
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