RE: [ga] Observations...

["Cade,Marilyn S - LGA" <mcade@att.com>]

Danny, thank you for doing that initial analysis.

Perhaps I can help by explaining why I didn't vote.  I am not in full
agreement with the resolutions as drafted. But not opposed to the concepts.


We are working hard, but we don't yet have a good mechanism to get
resolutions refined... I'm not being critical, merely trying to explain that
why I didn't vote... on these particular resolutions, as they were drafted. 

I didn't seek to modify them because I didn't see that there was broad
consensus to my points of view.  :-0 

I think that Danny's suggestions to us, reminds all of us to examine what,
why, and how we might better formulate resolutions... and is useful.  In the
meantime, I take the vote and the resolutions on face value...which is that
these issues remain of concern to several of the active participants in the
GA.  

That may not satisfactorily capture the full perspective, but I hope it can
make a contribution. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Younger [mailto:webmaster@babybows.com]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 6:31 PM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] Observations...


Lessons to be learned from the voting process:

As I review the names of those who actually voted on the GA ballot questions
http://www.dnso.org/secretariat/b05fullrecord.html , I note that perhaps
only 18 out of the 91 voters had posted any comments to the GA list in the
last month.  Frankly, most of the voters are unknown to me.   Simply put, a
full 80% of those voting do not actively participate on our GA list.  You
may want to think about why this happens to be the case, and forward some
suggestions as to how we may make improvements.

I was also quite dismayed to note that many our members who posted in the
last month did not choose to vote:
Appleby, Cade, Cochetti, Conant, Crispin, Crocker, Dassa, Dierker, Edelman,
Fausett, Froomkin, Gaetano, Gardner, Greenwell, Harris, Hernand, Kelly,
Kelsey, Ladi, Langdell, Levin, Marsh, Meyer, Mueller, Narra, Neuman,
Portneuve, Roberts, Schneiders, Semich, Sheppard, Sotiropoulos, Stoen,
Stubbs, Svensson.

You may also want to think about why regular contributors have decided not
to participate in a vote.

You may wish to also note that over 70% of the members on our voting
registry decided not to vote.  Perhaps we need to look at this "registry"
list, and ask ourselves if we need a mechanism to keep it "current".

If we are going to transform this Assembly into a body that is reasonably
functional and representative, we may need to re-think our approach.  I am
open to further suggestions, observations, and comments on how we can work
to improve our Assembly.








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