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Magrathea's Journal - FAQs
Posted Jun 6, 2011
Dear Researchers,
I've started a document called Magrathea's Workship - FAQs A85408095
If you have any questions, please ask.
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Magrathea's workshop - Voting Systems
Posted Apr 10, 2011
One of the (many) topics we need guidance from the Community on is the mechanics of a voting system.
What would we be voting for?
We'd be voting for people to do the tasks the Italics do now - in other words, for the people who would work on the Editorial and Community Team and the Business Team. See this diagram here: http://h2g2c2.co.uk/furniture/BodiesAndGroups.jpg
The mechanics of who would vote for the Business Team are fairly straight-forward because people could only be members of the Legal Entity using their real life names and addresses. (Not our rule - it's to do with anti-money-laundering legislation). So the electorate for that is known, and the mechanics are simple and the details depend on which format of Legal Entity.
Where it gets tricky - where we need everyone to pitch in with their 
now - where everyone will have Capital O Opinions come the time of the elections - is on the mechanics of voting for the Editorial and Community Team.
There's more about the teams and the electorate here: A81133670
So the discussion points include:
1) How would you manage an election to ensure one person one vote?
2) Who should be allowed to vote? What do we mean by 'a member of the site'?
3) How often should the Editorial and Community team stand for re-election ? All of them once a year? A third of them every year? Anyone who's been a member for more than 2 years?
4) How would you, how could you rig the election?
So, ladies and gentlefroods, please flex your imaginations, make suggestions, tell us how other communities manage this, work out how you would stuff the ballot so other people in the thread can work out how to stop you....
Ben / Mrs Zen
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Magrathea Alert 3
Posted Mar 19, 2011
If you want to see the basic outline of the various group we see running h2g2 in the future, pop over to A82699375. 
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Magrathea Alert 2
Posted Mar 17, 2011
I thought I could stop typing for the night, but then I realised that something else needed to be done!
This is based on Pinniped's vision of the Processes, found here: A82271775 and written up here: A82661051
It has been formalised in this Googledoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n9FDEW8AWmLCFAIDmdx-AOlu4uL-E2KY_lmUUUEFZco/edit?hl=en&authkey=CMvIipgJ
Thanks again,
Vip
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Magrethea Alert
Posted Mar 17, 2011
A new topic is up for review over at A82658703.
This is getting tight - the deadline for comments is tomorrow evening so I have even the smallest chance of getting it up and running by Saturday morning.
If you could keep comments on that thread rather than this it would help me greatly. Many thanks,
Vip
Currently the Chief Of Typing Up Stuff She Heard Other People Say
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