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On 1/16/08, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 16 January 2008 06:43:06 pm Alec Warner wrote: |
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> > There was talk of a vote on -core. I think the current decision is |
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> > that we need to investigate the alternatives before we can vote on |
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> > them; hence we are getting our paperwork in order to get advice from |
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> > our legal team. |
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> shouldn't users get to vote too? after developers shouldn't be developing for |
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> users not just themselves. the users also have a stake in this decision. |
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Hi Caleb, |
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I said there was talk of a vote, I didn't say we were going to vote. |
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At this point no one really knows who has control of the foundation's |
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assets legally (or if they do they have not made it clear to anyone). |
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We are still getting the paperwork together regarding our past |
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activities (Grant has been working hard on this for us with assistance |
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from Renat). |
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It would be unfortunate to have a vote only to have it have no legal |
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merit and have the Foundation go the other way (in laymans terms, |
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ignore the vote and do whatever). |
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With regards to users voting, I know robbat2 is working on a bunch of |
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surveys; I don't have a timeline for those yet. If we do vote I doubt |
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users would get one as there is no way to do things like identity |
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verification or detect vote tampering (which a dev-only vote can |
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accomplish). |
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The surveys give us aggregate data over time which I think (if we can |
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manage to get them out and convince people to take them) will help us |
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figure out what users want on a larger scale. |
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-Alec |
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