[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

Tue Sep 21 19:42:05 CEST 2010

Tux99 a écrit
+> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, vfmBOFH wrote:
+> > I did not say that representatives are decison makers. As its position
+> > indicates, they "represent" their respective communities. Their vote (or
+> > decision) *must* be their communities one.
+> 
+> There is no need for representative democracy on the Internet, arranging
+> local poll in each community and then a global one where the community
+> reps vote takes more time and effort than a single global poll.
+> 
+> All that's needed is direct links to the global poll from the local
+> community web sites so everyone can partecipate.
+> 
+> > The "central hub" should be seen as a "parliament", where users (who have
+> > previously elected their representatives) are represented.
+> 
+> Completely disagree. And what about those Mageia users that don't have a
+> local community or that prefer spending their time on the global forum
+> rather than in local forums?
+> 
+> Again there is zero need for a representative democracy on the Internet.
+> It only distorts the true wishes of the users and potentially creates
+> local ego-power-positions that only cause controversy and in-fights.
+> 
+
+Users are not sticked on Internet. If sticked they may not are on the same 
+channels than developers.
+
+Many users, if not most of them are invisible to developers since those users 
+are not used to work the same way, using the same tools as developers. How 
+many users will follow a mailing-list about mageia development ? How many 
+users will follow IRC channels about mageia (they must first know what is IRC 
+!)
+
+So, there must be a way for users to have a representation as well as 
+developers and contributors.
+
+-- 
+Olivier Méjean
+Président de l'Association des Utilisateurs Francophones de Mandriva Linux
+http://mandrivafr.org
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+