On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 09:41:05PM +0100, Rob Evans wrote:
I am slightly worried that leaves the agenda open to hijacking. I am sure that, whilst not often, sometimes there have been people with close to that number of proxy votes in the past. How would we avoid a DoS (Denial of Social event) attack on a Wednesday evening? I could of course be worrying over nothing, and perhaps it is a sacrifice that needs to be made.
Democracy > drinking at the end of the day... The proxy attach could conceivably be thwarted by requiring n individual members - they could possibly register their support for an agenda item ahead of the actual AGM.
Having said that, I would rather see the direct member suggestion of agenda items be left to significant events, ones that can get sufficient backing. The more usual route would be to ask the Executive Board to place items on the agenda -- either through this list or through direct lobbying of the EB. We vote the board in as our representatives, and we
Do Not Like. This harbours the possibility of a "golden circle" of "Friends Of The Board" with access vs those who don't have that access. I've seen that in national politics often enough. rgds, Sascha Luck