Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:56:24AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > He's gotten a lot of negative criticism from the folks on this list. > A number of people (who, near as I can tell, haven't even read what the > constitution has to say about his job) have made all sorts of comments > about how they thi

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:56:24AM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > He's gotten a lot of negative criticism from the folks on this list. > A number of people (who, near as I can tell, haven't even read what the > constitution has to say about his job) have made all sorts of comments > about how they th

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:27:26PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Actually there was an urgency. There isn't now, because the vote ended > > 10/23/2000, with no response from Darren after 10/10/2000 (unless I > > inadvertantly deleted something, which is quite possible, so feel free > > to correct m

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:58:30AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > John's proposal is, IMO, a reaction to a growing movement within Debian > > > > So, why confuse the issue ? > > > > What's so difficult about it ? > > Just two things: > - who is John? > - please stop CCing me when I sa

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:10:10AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > My complaint is with a very confusing ballot, that promised a second > ballot. It's with a www.debian.org/vote page that can't even keep up > to date with the current status of anything. I understand. However, at the momen

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Oct-00, 11:27 (CST), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:19AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > That's not completely obvious to those of us reading the lists. > > Well, maybe it wasn't obvious, but it should be obvious now. Or > do you think I'm lying?

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:27:26PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > Actually there was an urgency. There isn't now, because the vote ended > > 10/23/2000, with no response from Darren after 10/10/2000 (unless I > > inadvertantly deleted something, which is quite possible, so feel free > > to correct

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 07:58:30AM -0600, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > John's proposal is, IMO, a reaction to a growing movement within Debian > > > > So, why confuse the issue ? > > > > What's so difficult about it ? > > Just two things: > - who is John? > - please stop CCing me when I s

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:10:10AM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > My complaint is with a very confusing ballot, that promised a second > ballot. It's with a www.debian.org/vote page that can't even keep up > to date with the current status of anything. I understand. However, at the mome

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Seth Arnold
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001031 11:12]: > It looks for all the world like he just vanished. It's a volunteer > organization, but one of our guidelines is that if a person vanishes, > they should say "I'm vanishing for a bit". Does anyone know Darren's phone number? -- ``Oh

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Oct-00, 11:27 (CST), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:19AM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > That's not completely obvious to those of us reading the lists. > > Well, maybe it wasn't obvious, but it should be obvious now. Or > do you think I'm lying?

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First off, Darren wrote me last week and explained what he was doing. > I didn't forward the information to the list at the time, because > I wanted to give him time to wrap things up. So, while there's some > potential here I'm not approaching this from

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:27:26PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > We have no right or ability to force participation from our members, > > but it would be polite for someone in such a (currently) critical > > position to ask for help when needed. > > Sure, but given the negative remarks people have

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:38:53PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > We need a secretary, now, to deal with the current situation and to > > > focus on procedure. On 31-Oct-00, 04:56 (CST), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We *have* one. On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:19AM -0600,

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:29:07PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Should we also add the DFSG here ? [1] I had already withdrawn the proposal by the time you wrote this. There could have already been an ammendment at that time. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I'd like it if you could catch up on d

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Seth Arnold
* Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001031 11:12]: > It looks for all the world like he just vanished. It's a volunteer > organization, but one of our guidelines is that if a person vanishes, > they should say "I'm vanishing for a bit". Does anyone know Darren's phone number? -- ``Oh

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First off, Darren wrote me last week and explained what he was doing. > I didn't forward the information to the list at the time, because > I wanted to give him time to wrap things up. So, while there's some > potential here I'm not approaching this from

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001031T142907+0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > C. The Social Contract [...] > Should we also add the DFSG here ? DFSG is a part of the Social Contract. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%%

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Oct-00, 04:56 (CST), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:38:53PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > We need a secretary, now, to deal with the current situation and to > > focus on procedure. > > We *have* one. That's not completely obvious to those of u

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:27:26PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > We have no right or ability to force participation from our members, > > but it would be polite for someone in such a (currently) critical > > position to ask for help when needed. > > Sure, but given the negative remarks people hav

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:38:53PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > We need a secretary, now, to deal with the current situation and to > > > focus on procedure. On 31-Oct-00, 04:56 (CST), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We *have* one. On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:19AM -0600

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:29:07PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Should we also add the DFSG here ? [1] I had already withdrawn the proposal by the time you wrote this. There could have already been an ammendment at that time. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but I'd like it if you could catch up on

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20001031T142907+0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > C. The Social Contract [...] > Should we also add the DFSG here ? DFSG is a part of the Social Contract. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Steve Greenland
On 31-Oct-00, 04:56 (CST), Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:38:53PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > We need a secretary, now, to deal with the current situation and to > > focus on procedure. > > We *have* one. That's not completely obvious to those of

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:27:46PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:40:52PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > John's proposal is, IMO, a reaction to a growing movement within Debian > > So, why confuse the issue ? > > What's so difficult about it ? Just two things: - who

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:36:09PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Some views on the relationship of the constitution > and the social contract: > > Ian Jackson: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9803/msg01778.html > Darren Benham: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0010/msg00019.html > Wichert Ac

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:40:52PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:08:03AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > You miss my point, i am not speaking about big companies but about smaller > > > groups, individuals or research institues or other such. > > If you continue

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 02:27:46PM +0100, Sven LUTHER wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:40:52PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > John's proposal is, IMO, a reaction to a growing movement within Debian > > So, why confuse the issue ? > > What's so difficult about it ? Just two things: - wh

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:36:09PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > Some views on the relationship of the constitution > and the social contract: > > Ian Jackson: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-9803/msg01778.html > Darren Benham: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote-0010/msg00019.html > Wichert A

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:40:52PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 04:08:03AM -0500, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > > You miss my point, i am not speaking about big companies but about smaller > > > groups, individuals or research institues or other such. > > If you continu

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
[First off, to avoid a bunch of silly posts: before responding to this message, please catch up on reading debian-vote. If there's thirty or so messages following this one it's pretty likely that what you want to say in response has already been said. Thanks.] On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:38:53PM

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:40:52PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > a tech ctte chair who's openly against the > proposal to the point of trying to undermine it actively before it gets > voted on There's no evidence of that. Conspiracy theories are a bit childish. Hamish --

Re: The constitution and the social contract

2000-10-31 Thread Raul Miller
[First off, to avoid a bunch of silly posts: before responding to this message, please catch up on reading debian-vote. If there's thirty or so messages following this one it's pretty likely that what you want to say in response has already been said. Thanks.] On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:38:53PM

Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

2000-10-31 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 09:40:52PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote: > a tech ctte chair who's openly against the > proposal to the point of trying to undermine it actively before it gets > voted on There's no evidence of that. Conspiracy theories are a bit childish. Hamish -