[MLB-WIRELESS] AWA

[ABBENHUYS, Ryan]

It was tentatively decided that any decisions would have to win a 75%
majority of the vote to be passed.  This helps stop any joe shmoe getting a
few mates along to the meeting who don't even own computers, let alone have
an interest in wireless.

I think we need to have an electoral roll for voting.  Those who have no
interest in voting don't have to sign up then.  This would solve the problem
of having different opinions on what is classified as a member, because
members and voters would be two overlapping catagories.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew.C.Boyd at uts.edu.au [mailto:Matthew.C.Boyd at uts.edu.au]
Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2002 12:37

My main concern about voting membership being open to anyone who just wants 
to sign up is that its open to abuse. It would be relatively easy for 
someone to stack a meeting or a vote. While the group has no assets and 
relys on cooperation then things are fine. I'm sure people can think of 
suitable horror stories or scenarios.
I don't think that people should need to be a member to access the network 
and classifying the guy in the cafe who uses my AP to check his email as a 
member might be stretching the point.
There might be a further layer of services that people would need to join 
to obtain (eg possibly internet to make it legal). I don't think there 
should be any restrictions on joining either. I do think that a waiting 
period should apply to new members when it comes to voting and applying for 
things like executive positions. Obviously we need to take into account 
that the group is very new so waiting periods should probably just be long 
enough for us to see trouble approaching and duck at this stage.

I think there needs to be a relatively narrow definition of membership that 
would probably include most of the people on this list.

Matt


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