[chapter-delegates] Re: Encouragement and information from today's meeting with Lynn

[Fred Baker]

this sounds like a good suggestion, patrick.

One of the options in any such system should equate to "I have 
something I might feel like saying but I don't need the flames". This 
is a comment Lynn hears relatively frequently.

On Apr 5, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:

> Veni Markovski said the following on 05/04/2005 16:06:
>
>> UK, Sweden, Niue, France, Morocco, Bulgaria, George Sadowsky, Richard 
>> Delmas... and may be I am missing one or two names, as I was not 
>> taking notes.
>>
>> One thing, which I was kind of wondering... Could someone here make a 
>> calculation how many of the chapters have actually posted something 
>> in the last 4 months? I think it's around 20 chapters, someone else 
>> said 5-6.
>>
>> What do you say?
>
> I say you did a pretty good job in summarizing  this meeting ;-)
>
> Regarding the chapter-delegates list: it was pointed out that only a 
> few chapters participated in discussions and that it was difficult to 
> find out what the majority of silent  observers was thinking. My 
> suggestion was to use some system to allow chapter delegates to 
> express themselves through an e-voting system , where they can be sure 
>  they can express their opinion without getting flamed.
>
> Personal note: I have used eVoter from the university of San Diego 
> (http://evoter.sourceforge.net/index.html) to poll my chapter members 
> re ISOC BoT elections.  I should fit our needs and would only require 
> 1 man/day to customize.
> Patrick
>