[Koha-devel] About IRC meeting & voting

[Marc Balmer]

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Am 14.06.2012 um 10:36 schrieb Mirko <5p4m at gmx.de>:

> Good morning,
> 
> schrieb Paul Poulain am 14.06.2012 09:51:
>> Hello world,
>> 
>> Sorry for missing yesterday IRC meeting, but after 10 days away from
>> home, my family needed me (and it was 8PM here !)
>> 
>> During the meeting, Owen said, as a joke:
>> oleonard> 24-hour meeting, votes ever hour, day-end averages win.
>> 
>> but i'm not sure it should be a joke: there is always someone sleeping
>> or (wanting to) during the IRC meeting.
>> So shouldn't we vote not during IRC meeting, but just confirm the vote,
>> that is made during a period before the IRC meeting, on an other tool,
>> like wiki, gdoc, yell +1 / 0 / -1 on the mailing list, a tool like
>> http://www.ballotbin.com/ (untested, just found it in google) or
>> whatever you want.
> 
> +1 for changing to a voting period. We are a community within a lot
> of different timezones, everybody should have the chance to vote.

+1

> 
> But please let us not outsource this to a service we don't control
> ourselves. ballotbin.com requires an account, voteer.com uses
> googleapis etc. I suppose there won't be millions of votes suddenly,
> so the wiki or mailinglist should be enough for now, or someone sets
> up a fancy, privacy unintrusive tool on a server we control.

ack, very much ack, indeed.

> 
> With the IRC meeting, you have people actually attending, talking to
> each other and have a discussion. I think that is very important,
> but we could have the discussions on the mailing list too I guess.
> 
> I vote strongly against some clicky tool where you just make an 'X'
> somewhere and that's it. It would be nice to know who the people are
> that vote for something (and that they are real people and no bots).

ack, again.

> 
> 
>> 
>> I think that would also help more people being involved: attending an
>> IRC meeting is, for some, a too high barrier (in France, there's a
>> barrier with the language, for example).
> 
> 
> To attend an IRC meeting, you have to open the webchat applet, say
> "hi", "#info $your_name" and then you can vote. I think it is easier
> than joining the mailing list or registering for the wiki, isn't it?
> 
> 
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