[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] please vote for our NGO name

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:05:32PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:00:39AM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > > 
> > > Some of these objections are IMO valid, but the question is: why
> > > didn't they have been arised when both the names and the voting
> > > procedure was discussed?
> > 
> > 1) I don't currently have time to reply to every email in realtime.
> > 2) The objections *did* get raised, but were promptly ignored when the
> >    voting started, i.e. all the bad names were put up as candidates.
> 
> You can express your objections in the vote like everyone else by ranking
> names you object to worse than ones you do not object to.
> 
> Also suggesting another name required just 2 developers, this did not happen

False.

> What iam trying to say here is that noone not just not you proposed other
> names

False.

> You seem to dislike voting in general, is there really
> any comment you have about the names beyond that?

This is the first time I am a non-voter.  Every situation has a positive
side.  Now I know what these people always felt like.

> Note btw, the obvious typo of MultimEDIA we will correct to Multimedia
> unless people make it clear in their votes that they meant it uppercased
> like that.

Obvious typo?  That looked like an acronym to me.  The name is shit
either way, so you are right, it does not make a difference.

Diego