collective decision making WAS: Re: [PD-dev] motex cvs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Jun 3, 2005, at 2:31 PM, B. Bogart wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I think voting democratically makes sense personally. One vote for each
> "developer" sounds logical.
>
> What is a "developer" though? User input about certain things could be
> really useful, in terms of things like strategic direction.
>
> Is a developer anyone who contributes to the PD core?
> Contributes by writing Externals?
> Contributes by writing abstractions?
> Contributes by writing documentation?
> Contributes by teaching workshops?
> Maybe just someone who is a source-forge developer for pd?
>
> Am I a developer?

I think that debian is a good example here:  anyone who is elected to  
be a developer is a developer.  The existing body of developers elects  
new ones.  Maybe "developer" isn't the best term for it...

.hc

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