<div dir="ltr">Before commenting further I suggest to put the paragraph that is being discussed on top of the email - benevolent dictator sounds much worse than what is being proposed. <br><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size:12.8px"><blockquote type="cite">The Governance model includes a statement:<br>"In all issues, the PSC strives to achieve unanimous consent based on a free, independent exchange of facts and opinions. Should such consent exceptionally not be reached then Peter Baumann has a casting vote."<br><a href="http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance" target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance</a></blockquote></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra">This sounds pretty inclusive to me it but it seems to me that it needs to be reformulated - it does not say how do you measure whether you have consent (the discussions on dev issues can get pretty messy and open ended) - you really need to have a vote on that which is what Cameron has suggested.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Helena</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Moritz Lennert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mlennert@club.worldonline.be" target="_blank">mlennert@club.worldonline.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 01/05/16 13:29, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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This is kind of a larger topic than just the incubation committee, but<br>
no I do not believe we should. It is a defining characteristic of our<br>
foundation to not place many restrictions on our projects - but demand<br>
that the projects be inclusive and open to collaboration.<br>
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I do not believe that the "benevolent dictator" fits this ideal.<br>
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+1<br>
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Moritz<br>
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