Mark,
shouldn't we first finish establishing all necessary rules to deal with the proposals and initiatives? (Several have already appeared in the general mailing list.) To decide how/where to submit them, in what order to process them, how much time is allotted for discussion, voting. What about mission statement, membership rules (who is considered a member)?
I suggest to implement (perhaps a variation of) the proposal queue as I formulated it in [democracy.mkolar.org]. A place where to formally submit a proposal should be determined. All WDDM members could than rate it, and the proposal that gets the highest rating is always processed first. wddm.enitiatives.org could handle this, or my voting system could handle this (after a small modification).

As for your proposal to endorse Gravel, I am not outright against it as Bruce, but nevertheless rather ambivalent on several grounds. Let's set up the proposal queue and we'll see how much support this proposal will get ....

Mirek

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