[MLB-WIRELESS] AWA

[rick]

oh oh another idea, aplications for voteing membership and takes a month
before you can start voteing

after this vote this friday

that way if you want 2 stack votes you have to plan over a month a head?

just a idea


----- Original Message -----
From: <Matthew.C.Boyd at uts.edu.au>
To: <melbwireless at www.wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 12:37 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] AWA


> My main concern about voting membership being open to anyone who just
wants
> to sign up is that its open to abuse. It would be relatively easy for
> someone to stack a meeting or a vote. While the group has no assets and
> relys on cooperation then things are fine. I'm sure people can think of
> suitable horror stories or scenarios.
> I don't think that people should need to be a member to access the network
> and classifying the guy in the cafe who uses my AP to check his email as a
> member might be stretching the point.
> There might be a further layer of services that people would need to join
> to obtain (eg possibly internet to make it legal). I don't think there
> should be any restrictions on joining either. I do think that a waiting
> period should apply to new members when it comes to voting and applying
for
> things like executive positions. Obviously we need to take into account
> that the group is very new so waiting periods should probably just be long
> enough for us to see trouble approaching and duck at this stage.
>
> I think there needs to be a relatively narrow definition of membership
that
> would probably include most of the people on this list.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
> At 11:19 AM 11/04/02 +1000, Steven Haigh wrote:
> >When drafting the policy proposal, this was debated at great length...
> >
> >We ended up agreeing, that because it is a public network, and not a
members
> >only type thing, then we're never going to know exactly who or how many
> >members we have... We are not going to restrict on people that connect to
> >the network as a whole, and as such, we don't know who will access the
> >network from day to day.
> >
> >Are the people that just use the network occasionally on a "because it's
> >there" basis then members? how do we track them down?
> >
> >One idea that was raised is that we have an online "Voting Members"
> >database. This would require you to enter your name, address, phone
number
> >etc, and also entitle you to one vote. Now this eventually could be used
for
> >online voting, proxy voting, meeting votes etc - but we are not at a
stage
> >at this specific point in time to make that happen... This is our main
> >driving force behind getting at least a structure approved and running on
> >Friday. The other details can be altered according to the policy...
> >
> >Signed,
> >Steven Haigh
>
>
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