RE: [ga] AT large membership

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>]

100,000 or more. IMHO, we need at minimum, 1% of DNS owners to be here.
500 is a spit in the ocean.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Javier
> Rodriguez
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 7:38 AM
> To: ga@dnso.org
> Subject: [ga] AT large membership
> 
> 
> Ok guys, we can continue discussing censorship and other 
> related things,
> (true of false), but I wonder that there is many other 
> productive and interesting
> things that we are loosing from our sigth... and the AT LARGE 
> election is
> the next forum.
> 
> I ask myself, and I dont get any answer, what kind of 
> membership can be used
> in the AT LARGE that will be democratic, open, etc. etc., 
> whithout getting
> this "atmosphere" of "you are rude", "you have a dirty 
> mouth", "you censor me!"...
> 
> This list has more or less 500 members... what number of AT 
> LARGE membership
> do we expect to participate in the process ?
> 
> More people included in the AT LARGE process means MORE democracy, but
> at the same time includes MORE noise, trouble, accusations of 
> censorship, and so on.
> So what is the level of noise that the Board (old and new) 
> will allow in the
> AT LARGE membership forums ?
> 
> Is there some comment about the At large membership process, 
> the Council
> that will represent the at large membership, and the whole 
> process of electing
> the AT LARGE directors for the board ?
> 
> Coming from such a wide range of people, from so many 
> different interests,
> I would love to see what you think, where are the goods and 
> the bad news
> about the At large process and how we can move further in 
> this process.
> 
> Is the Geographical distribution guaranteed (sp!) in the At 
> Large process ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Javier
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> Javier Rodriguez                     jrl@mail.lima.net.pe
> AXISNET                                    VicePresident
> Peruvian Association of Internet Users and ISPs
> Other duties: ECOMLAC      ISOC -PERU      IPCE
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