Nationality of voting members
Vidyut
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I propose that since we are not currently with a goal of forming a political party, we are not required to restrict our membership to Indians. Nor is it stated anywhere on our website or constitution. We are networking with pirates from other countries, who are contributing their views and adding perspective as well.
In my view, community votes would not accurately reflect the consensus of all contributing thinkers here if they were denied a vote. It would mean equality within the community if we did not discriminate on basis of nationality among contributing members.
I do think that the subjects taken up in the community should remain restricted to those relevant to India - even when brought up by foreigners. We may look at some global issue - digital rights violations cross borders with impact very easily, for example, but it must be relevant to Indians.
Poll Created Wed 22 Jul 2015 6:16AM
Allow members of any nationality (continued) Closed Tue 25 Aug 2015 5:38AM
My apologies for creating the previous proposal with a very short closing date. Creating this new identical one for those who missed previous. We can consider both results together or those who voted previously can vote here again:
I propose that we do not discriminate between contributing members on the basis of nationality, as long as the focus of the community remains on India and establishing a thriving community of Pirates in India.
Non-Indians contributing to the community but not being able to vote would essentially leave them unrepresented in the community. Not fair to them.
If we are not forming a political party from this group, we are not required to restrict membership - it is just an online group. Besides, none of our documents currently deny membership or voting rights to non-Indians, so it is an unstated norm, but not official restriction.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 60.0% | 3 |
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| Abstain | 40.0% | 2 |
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| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 127 |
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5 of 132 people have participated (3%)
Pirate Praveen
Wed 22 Jul 2015 6:32AM
Though I disagree, if majority of voting members approve, I don't mind.
vik@hamara
Wed 22 Jul 2015 8:41AM
This issue effects me directly. I guess this is something that needs to be confirmed in the constitution whichever way this current proposal goes.
Pirate Praveen
Fri 24 Jul 2015 9:57AM
Though I disagree, if majority of voting members approve, I don't mind.
Balasankar C
Mon 24 Aug 2015 5:44AM
Even though I would go with the decision of the group, I suggest to include
* Indians - Living in India or Abroad
* Non-Indians - Living in India
I don't see (yet) how Non-Indians who doesn't live in India can understand our situation.
Pirate Praveen Fri 27 Nov 2015 5:11AM
@vik has been very active here and it would not be fair to deny him voting rights and I'm sure more people like him will join us in future. So I'm in favour of this now. I will propose an amendment to the constitution.
Vidyut · Wed 22 Jul 2015 6:14AM
My apologies @vik I am still adapting to the platform and accidentally left the duration to the default 3 days. Will try to open it again and see. There is nothing about this that needs an urgent decision.