On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, Jeremy wrote: >> Assuming the leadership will allow it, how hard is it to arrange a vote >> by members on the name change? > > It's not so much an issue of 'allow'. It's more a question of how can > we do it in a reasonable and generally agreeable fashion. OK. Thanks, first, for all of the work you did on this email message. I'll provide some of my answers to your questions: > Here are the questions: > > 1) Do we want to take a vote? I think the answer is "yes" because there were many respondents in the recent exchange and they were definitely on both sides of the issue. I think we should plan the vote and not vote on whether to vote! ;-) > 2) what are the choices to be considered? I will write something for my side. I assume the other side is "keep things as they are." > 3) for each choice that requires action to be taken, who is implementing the > solution, and how? I can do a lot of the work, but I don't have write permissions on the files on your server (I don't even have an account), but I can grab the files via wget and edit them and the owner can then get them from me. > 4) Shall we vote by replying to the list with a msg header that indicates the > vote clearly, or via some other method? Maybe, but a different system would be better. I'll look into that. Maybe someone else has a scheme for doing this. > 5) Lastly, when is the deadline to begin voting (after which time the > options should not be changed)? And when do the polls close? I think it should be open about 5 days, including some weekend days. Most people who are going to vote will do so very soon. Mike