That sounds pretty good.<div><br></div><div>I might add that, to make this more manageable for BOD and members alike, a dashboard would be handy that lists available votes awaiting participation.</div><div><br></div><div>BOD have this, but it's not terribly usable right now -- as the handiest approach would be to provide a list of "items that need your attention" or somesuch to make it clear how members can make a difference (and what their dues are giving them access to!).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:49 AM, David Recordon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@sixapart.com">david@sixapart.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
While the specs council vote is designed as a recommendation to the membership, I'm also trying to capture the current ad hoc involvement of community members who are not members of the Foundation. I imagine it would work something like this:<br>
1) Proposers work on building consensus around their proposal on the <a href="mailto:specs@openid.net" target="_blank">specs@openid.net</a> mailing list working toward the final version<br>
2) Propoers submit the proposal to the Specs Council which begins the 15 day period<br>
3) Sometime within the 15 days (ideally as soon as possible) the Specs Council creates the vote within the tool designating it as a Specs Council + Community (anyone) vote<br>
4) An email is sent to the <a href="mailto:specs@openid.net" target="_blank">specs@openid.net</a> list announcing the recommendation vote, noting that only specs council members have binding votes, but encouraging anyone who wants to to vote<br>
5) Once all of the Specs Council members have voted or 15 days have elapsed, whichever comes first, the results are shown at a public URL showing how each council member voted and aggregated counts of how the community voted<br>
6) The Foundation Membership approval vote is created and runs normally also providing a link to the results of the Specs Council + community vote<br><font color="#888888">
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On Jan 26, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Martin Atkins wrote:<br>
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David Recordon wrote:<br>
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I'm wondering what it would take to make the voting tool be able to help out the specs council? Like other votes, some of the challenges are sifting through an email thread collecting votes, getting people to realize that they're supposed to vote in a certain thread and mixing the input between the community and council members. What I'd propose is that we add the ability to vote on proposals to the voting tool in such a way where anyone (including non-members) can vote though the results are displayed split up between the council member votes and the wider community votes (a bit like how the US election has the popular vote and the electoral vote). Ideally this would be extended to the final approval vote as well so that anyone could vote but only the votes from Foundation members would be counted.<br>
Who should I work with to make this happen? Other ideas on how this should work?<br>
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It was my understanding that the specs council vote was essentially a recommendation to the community on how to vote, so it seems like the specs council vote ought to happen first, rather than in parallel with the community vote.<br>
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Displaying the specs council result on the voting page for the community vote would be good, though. I assume that right now that could be done less elegantly by simply including the specs council result in the text that introduces the vote.<br>
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