Re: Poll results for Delphi-JEDI

Oliver,

> Congratulations, Alan. Usually only dictators get such a high support rate 
> ;-) ... on the other hand they have higher participation in the polls as well 
> :-P
> Be a benevolent dictator for the next year.
> 

I take the attitude of regarding myself as a servant, a fascilitator, for 
what it's worth.  We have too many dictators, and would be dicatators, but I will 
stay away from politics as it got me into trouble the last time I expressed a 
view about it on a Delphi list.

> One point of criticism which I did not want to bring up before the end of 
> the election. Although I simply would not have the time to take any position 
> in JEDI steering, I was a little ridiculed by this sentence in one of your 
> previous mails:
> 
> "Candidates have to show support of at least two JEDI members and one
> Steering Team member, before they go on the ballot"
> 
> Basically this looks as if the JEDI *steering* wants to recruit only people 
> from among themselves.
> 

Thank you for the criticism and I will share it with Steering for their 
consideration.  It has been some time since we first developed these procedures and 
perhaps it is time to take another look.  I think the intention here was that 
people on Steering would be in a good position to know potential candidates 
and the work they may have done in the project.  There may have been a concern 
about someone outside of the project who knew little about it taking on this 
job.  Also, the job entails working with all of the others on Steering, leading 
discussions, doing polls, and so on.  So, having at least some support on 
Steering makes sense from that point of view.  Finally, this is not a provision 
that we have necessarily always followed.  I am not absolutely certain of that.

Best wishes,

Alan C. Moore



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