[pp.int.general] Online voting versus online discussion

[Mozart Olbrycht-Palmer]

Many of us do actually keep Pirate-related blogs.

On 09/12/2012, at 8:04 PM, Zbigniew Łukasiak wrote:

> Short version:
>
> online voting - no
> (http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/10/155536-internet-voting-in-the-us/fulltext 
> )
>
> online discussion - yes
>
> Longer version:
>
> Comming from the Open Source world I am surprised by the scarcity of
> international disscussion in the Pirate Movement.  This list and the
> PirateTimes are perhaps the only places where the international pirate
> topics are discussed.  This is not enough - if that was an Open Source
> project you'd have many individual blogs and many more mailing lists
> where people would discuss stuff from many angles and also in more
> personal less formal ways.
>
> I have the feeling that all that discussion that does not happen
> online is then crammed into the General Assemblies.  In my opinion GAs
> should be just a matter of recording the consensus on matters that
> would be exhaustingly discussed online.  That is not to say that
> discussion would be forbidden - only that we should try to avoid it.
>
> Online voting is a can of worms - it can probably work well for
> non-secret voting - but to get it right is much more difficult than it
> seems.  Especially in the context of international negotiations we
> cannot put so much faith in the  administators of the system.  And
> please read the paper linked above.
> Of course discussion systems are subject of similar concerns - but it
> does not need to be so centralized - and beside that it would be
> subject to the supervision of the safe, in person, GA.
>
>
> --
> Zbigniew Lukasiak
> http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/
> http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/
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