[Members] minutes of XSF Annual Meeting, 2009-10-06

[Alexey Melnikov]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

>On 10/7/09 1:20 PM, Jonathan Siegle wrote:
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>>On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
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>>>But that gives me an idea: why hold elections at all? We could choose
>>>the Board and the Council by sortition or allotment from among the
>>>membership...
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>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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>>>So if you are an XSF member, you need to be prepared to serve on either
>>>body for some period of time (perhaps it would be monthly, or at least
>>>something less than 1 year).
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>>Not a bad idea. Quarterly sounds like a good time period.
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>It would certainly end the complaints about XSF members not having
>enough to do. ;-)
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Indeed.

I think this might also help reduce size of XSF.