Lex Spoon skrev:
Stéphane Rollandin lecteur@zogotounga.net writes:
Herbert König wrote:
My reason not to vote is that I'm sensitive to labels tacked onto me. The only SqPeople status I'm comfortable with is Observer. The possibility of anybody sticking one of the other labels (including master) at me keeps me from having an account there.
I had very similar feelings until this very morning, when I eventually thought that if I was to wait for things to be perfect before I allow myself to participate it was going to be a tad longuish.
Add me to the list. I would prefer us to have a registration process with clear criteria for who gets to vote. These decisions are hard but important. They define what our community is.
I would say people can vote if they have shown a interest in Squeak and it is possible to recognize that person as a real person eg.: they have created a accont on Squeak People and added some notes or links documenting what they use Squeak for or why they are interested in Squeak.
Is posting on the mailing list enough? Do you have to contribute code? What about editing documentation? What if you are a big-wig with some *other* Smalltalk system?
We would do better to talk about it and decide.
Some people are using etoys, OLPC, Scratch, Sophie, Croquet or another subsystem of Squeak and will possibly never use the code browser etc but they can still have a strong interest in Squeak. As others have stated, Squeakfoundation is not a technical entity but more a entity to help with the communication and certain logistic functions of the community, and I think everyone with a stated interest in Squeak should be able to vote.
Karl