-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/09/2014 09:01 AM, board wrote: > * Last but not least a new and possibly crazy idea: Today the board > is half elected and half appointed. How about a new body, that is > half elected as today, but the other half is elected/appointed on a > committee level? I think this would combine the advantage proposals > the council (having all stakeholders in the group) with the board > (democratic legitimization through election) and at the same time > minimize the problems of lazy consensus (dominance of a few). Total side note ... I just read through a recent history of Venice, which was the world's longest standing republic. At the final centuries of the republic, the voting process for the doge (who did *not* have absolute authority, fwiw) was intensely complicated. It involved a huge committee selecting a sub-committee through randomization, which elected another sub-committee, which then elected the electors, who then selected another sub-committee via random, who elected more electors, and so on. Randomization of who got on which committee was essentially "left to God" -- they prayed, then drew a wax ball from an urn held by a boy chosen randomly from the streets, with the contents of the wax ball saying "you are in, or not", etc. It was interesting to read the ways in which "God's will" and the will of the people was mixed together to get something nearly impossible to game. (Not to say no one ever gamed the system, but it was a task for three Mission Impossible teams and a Hollywood script writing team.) - - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlQQg1AACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEF+JgCgwQhhcnuF+6eIsAZL4STdgFVr bNYAoOcsgvPEW3Vclbz1L5VPvapD+F0i =CZmu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
