Minutes/2026-04-16
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
Present: TM, RL, MM
- Misc
- The meeting discussed a proposal from MM to enlarging the electorate for adding Board members. The meeting briefly reviewed the circumstances surrounding the establishment of the Board and the existing process for adding new Board members. The meeting debated the necessity of reforming or replacing the existing process and discussed the pros and cons of various alternatives, including a relatively open voting system (similar to how hierarchy management decisions were made before the establishment of the Board), the consensus-based model used by Wikipedia for adding administrators (where users hold a discussion on candidates, and a trusted cadre attempts to identify a general consensus in that discussion), and the voting-based model used to elect the Thunderbird Council (where an electorate is formed from users meeting some defined criteria, who then vote on candidates). It was agreed to resume the discussion at the next meeting.
