[LGM] voting process for the lgm 2018

[Frank Trampe]

Similarly to what Ale has said, I feel that the discussion has already
occurred, and the proposal has already received the blessing of the
organizers from the lack of negative feedback during the course of that
discussion. Given that, I think that the most important thing is to
maximize the number of votes (all of which I would expect to be yes votes,
given the complete lack of other options) to build a strong mandate for the
event. That end is best reached by a community-wide vote.

I formally propose the following question for a vote by the full LGM
community for a week starting Monday.

Shall the Libre Graphics Meeting organization accept the proposal submitted
> to hold the Meeting in Seville in the Spring of 2018 (
> https://hackmd.io/s/rkS83BSBZ ) and appoint Ale González as Lead Local
> Organizer for said event?


It would be helpful if we had multiple affirmative replies here. If it all
looks good, I'll set up the Etherpad by Monday.


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:37 AM, ale rimoldi <ale at graphicslab.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:40:46 -0400
> Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > The rationale behind having this vote among a short list of people is
> > these people have taken a lot of time to review the proposals, ask
> > questions, ask for precisions, weighed the pros and cons according to
> > their knowledge of organising such an event and are now ready to go a
> > step further towards acceptance by the community by stating clearly
> > that they recommend one proposal — in this case, the Sevilla proposal.
>
> you're right!
>
> on the other side a more open process could motivate new people to
> engage more.
>
> in our case, i don't expect anybody to walk in and crash the vote with
> random opinions.
>
> > I believe this process is sane and has worked for many many years
> > with no bad comments that I can recall.
> >
> > We have a sane and proven process. If it works, let’s not try to fix
> > it!
>
> the number of people who have participated in the lgm organization has
> drastically sunk in the last two years.
>
> so, yes, this is a try to fix something that is not working as well as
> it did in the past.
>
> something that seems to better fit the opinion of the ones who were
> actively and visibly caring (and had the time to do so) for the "global"
> lgm in the last year.
>
> my first proposal was a shy try at opening the process.
> this is a more bold one.
>
> if more people support your concerns, we will be back to the slight
> changed process i proposed last weeek. also on sunday.
> with a bigger chance for the sevilla bid to be refused, since a non
> negligible part of the people on the lgm-org list seem just not to care
> that much anymore.
>
> have a wonderful day and thanks for your feedback!
> a.l.e
>
> ps.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsgemeinde
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