[Sussex] When should SLUG Meet?

[Jon Fautley]

Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson wrote:
> Jon
> 
> Long time no hear (at least on this list).

Yeah, been a bit quiet of late ;)

>> http://doodle.ch/participation.html?pollId=bkkyubdmz5m5zkb7
>>
>> There you go - look there.
>>
>> Much easier than trying to faff around with emails!
> 
> I disagree.

I somehow thought you might... ;)

> 1). Anyone can submit a vote at your location, only people signed
>     up to this e-mail list can contribute to the e-mail vote.
>     Are you volenteering to validate names submitted to the poll
>     agaist the members of this list?  BTW - not everyone has submitted
>     their name to the mail-list software.

Well, anyone would have to have the link for this, which is posted to
this email list. I guess they could check the archives, but I doubt
there's going to be massive gangs of people submitting incorrect
information to this poll.

> 2). Your voting recomendation does not have negitive options.  
>     Holbrook's veto of meeting on a Friday or Saturday can not
>     be accomidated there.  I would argue that the negitives are
>     just as important as the positives in this case.

It can if you don't add options for "Friday" or "Saturday" to the poll.
I created that in less than 30 seconds as a demo, more than anything.

Getting people to vote for days they can't make it a bit pointless, too,
imo. How does this tally up in the 'grand scheme' of things? Lets say 15
people can make a Monday meeting, but one can't... does this mean that
you'll not hold the vote on a Monday?

Surely if someone doesn't vote for a specific day, it's implied they
can't make it?

> 3). Everyone that submits a vote reminds everyone else that there
>     is a vote going on.  The single posting of the Web 2.0 vote
>     system would be forgotten after 48 hours by most people.  I
>     doubt we would get the same response.

You have an automatic spam engine that emails the list every so often -
why not just have it add the link to the next batch of spam emails, and
send a few manual reminders out? It's not rocket science :)

/j
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