[HCoop-Discuss] Budget Issues, Membership Meeting, and Overhauling HCoop

[Steve Taylor]

kattla <kattla at hcoop.net> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Steve Taylor <staylor at ncf.ca> wrote:
>> kattla <kattla at hcoop.net> writes:
>> I don't have financial skills to fully explain, even if I did know the
>> facts. But even polls for more major decisions are frustrating without
>> enough response (votes) from members.
>
> I would answer if it asked a question that made sense to me.
> The smallest change to make me vote would be to add an option "I don't know.".
> To make me give a more useful answer it could ask "What dues would you
> find acceptable for the current hcoop-services?" and for each
> suggested due let me answer "acceptable", "not acceptable" or
> "unsure". (Does our software support such a poll?)
>
> On a deeper issue, why is it frustrating if only a few persons answer
> a poll? Does that need to be frustrating? Assuming the poll is
> designed so everyone is able to answer it in a way that makes sense to
> them, why not just say "this is the portion of our member base that
> care about this issue enough to make their opinion known" and leave it
> at that?
>

Full-time job + volunteer sysadmin + poll design = lots

Members who do not vote are more likely to object later.
-- 
Steve, staylor at ncf.ca, 736-1653/cell 620-7286