On 12 May, Ludovic Courtès wrote: (...) > This will be consistent with the terminology used in GCD 001 and also > dispel the impression that it all boils down to a vote: there is no vote > (and no campaign, no representatives, nothing like that), and I’d prefer > everyone in the community to focus on the discussion and improvements > that stem from it rather than on the final show of hands.
Understand the desired outcome. > 1. Renaming “voting-records” to “deliberation”. > > 2. In the ‘README’ and .rec files, change “Voting record” to > “Deliberation record”, and generally “Vote” to “Deliberation”. (...) Reflecting things that we agree on: I will try and avoid the word 'vote'. I'll rename to 'deliberation-record' (1). And, will use 'Deliberation record' elsehwere. Things we don't agree on: I don't see a way to avoid the verb "vote" for the action of "officially recording ones position". It's the only usable word I can come up with (which is odd for English). I don't want to mis-use the word deliberation as a verb for vote. If someone can come up with a meaningful verb for 'vote' I will use that - I just genuinely can't find one that isn't really odd (e.g. "It's time to measure our consensus" sounds like a weird euphemism to me!). It means it's hard to avoid a sentence like "As the Deliberation Period is at an end, it's time to vote on GCDNNN" Does that help? Steve / Futurile
