Xref: utzoo news.announce.newgroups:1124 news.groups:31898 comp.society:820 comp.ai:9248 soc.culture.african:2873 soc.culture.china:50068 soc.culture.indian:50824 soc.culture.latin-america:4539 sci.econ:2997 Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups,comp.society,comp.ai,soc.culture.african,soc.culture.china,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.latin-america,sci.econ Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!bounce-back From: reiter@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Ehud Reiter) Subject: RESULT: comp.society.development passes 255: 46 Message-ID: Followup-To: news.groups Sender: tale@cs.rpi.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: cs.rpi.edu Organization: Dept AI, Edinburgh University, Scotland Date: 13 May 91 05:16:40 GMT Approved: tale@rpi.edu Lines: 381 The proposal to create comp.society.development (a newsgroup to discuss the role of computers in developing countries) has PASSED. This message includes: -- voting summary -- the group's charter -- list of NO votes received -- list of YES votes received VOTING SUMMARY: The voting period ended on 8 May 1991. The following votes were received: 46 NO 255 YES --- 301 total This meets the USENET success criteria, as at least 2/3 of the votes were YES votes, and there were 100 more YES votes than NO votes. My thanks to all those who took the time to participate in the vote. There is now a 5-day waiting period, during which people can send corrections if their vote was miscounted (please e-mail reiter@castle.ed.ac.uk). If the success criteria are still met after such corrections, the group will be created. In terms of comments, several people (including both Yes and No voters) said they liked the group's charter but not its name. Sorry about that - if I had received as many such comments during the discussion period, I would have tried to find something more acceptable to everyone, but unfortunately the name cannot (usually ...) be changed during the voting period. We can always change the name later, if the group seems successful and the name is still a problem. A smaller number of people also said they would have prefered a different position in the USENET hierarchy. Similar comments apply, although I also suspect there isn't any really appropriate place for such a group in the current hierarchy. One person also suggested some kind of link with the BITNET group DEVEL-L. DEVEL-L has a somewhat different charter (in particular, it's much less technical than I hope comp.society.development will be), and in any case the organizers of DEVEL-L did not respond to any of my e-mail messages, so I did not pursue this (if you want to find out about DEVEL-L and other such groups, subscribe to comp.society.development! - when the group is created, I'll post a list of all the related mailing lists that I know of). CHARTER OF THE NEW GROUP: NAME: comp.society.development MODERATED: No CHARTER: This group will discuss applications of computer technology in developing countries. Topics might include: - specific stories of successful (and unsuccessful) uses of computers in developing countries - general discussion of the difficulties and advantages of using computers in developing countries - comments from developing country computer users on their experiences - requests from developing country computer users for computer-related advice - news about communications, especially networks and electronic mail, to and within developing countries - updates from aid agencies, volunteer groups and others active in developing countries on computer-related projects underway or under consideration - discussions about appropriate hardware and software - general news about books, seminars, conferences, and projects General discussions of Third World politics or economics will be avoided. LIST OF NO VOTES (46 total, sorted by From: field) Alex Laney Arne Henrik Juul Bill Mackiewicz Bob Weissman Brian Kenney Brian Matthews Carl Rigney Charleen Bunjiovianna Stoner Chip Rosenthal Craig E. Ward Dave V. Schaller David Neal Miller David Robinson David Summers Dewey Henize Dick Dunn Ed Clarke/10240000 Edison H.W. Wong Glenn M Cooley Harald Nordg}rd-Hansen Jim Roche Jonathan Stigelman Karl Tombre Kelly DeYoe Kim DeVaughn Leonard Peirce Michael C. Berch Michael Klemme Mike Pelletier Neil Rickert News Administrator @ Wolves Norman Yarvin Paulo da Costa 42147 Randall Atkinson Rich Thomson Robert Craig Harman Robert Newstadt Robert S. Wood Timothy VanFosson Tom Fitzgerald Tom Jaskiewicz goehring@edu.purdue.cc.mentor mikol@uucp.forsyth rorschak@dk.aau.daimi tower@edu.bu.bu-it wyatt (Bill Wyatt) LIST OF YES VOTES (255 total, sorted by From: field) A.J.S.Santiago@ed A.ROCHAFILHO ABULSARI@fi.abo.aboy2 ACHAN@earn.slacvm AGORICS PROJ (LACOBIE) Ajit Sanzgiri Akinwale A Akinpelu Alan Bundy Alan Thew Alayne McGregor Albert Langer Alberto Cueto Alexander Holt Alvaro Fernandes Anand Patwardhan Andres Angela Lamb Anselm Lingnau Anu Vedantham 21371 Ashish Karkare Ashok Gupta Audrey C Mack Bal Prasad Barnabas Chirombo Bart Benus Benjamin Davis Beverly Erlebacher Bob Fisher Brian Duke Bruce Atherton C J A Da Silva CABRALES@edu.unt.acs.vaxb Carl-Helmut Coulon Carlos R. Robert (crober21@hpprdea) Carol Orange Carol Springs Cesar Galindo-Legaria Charlotte A Weise Chris Williams Chris.Reynolds Christian Haider Clifford A Adams Craig R Stevenson +1 614 860 7089 D Zanother Daniel Jacobson Darrell J. Parsons David Robboy Diana Bental Dickson Lukose Don Ewart Don Porter Dr. Guna Seetharaman Ed Robertson Ed Y Hiheta Edgardo Richards Edwin Blake Eelco Vriezekolk Erik Vinkhuyzen Fabio Silva Fergus O'Reilly Frank van Harmelen Gary Capell Gary McGraw Geoff C Wing Geoffrey Wiginton Gertjan van Heijst Gilford T. Hapanyengwi Glenn Gould Grant (G.E.)Martin Guus Schreiber Hector A Geffner Hector Ruben Cordero-Guzman Helen Lowe Henk Boterenbrood Henk Dieu Honore TCHUENKAM Howard Beck Ines de Castro Dutra J.G.Thistle JOSERP@earn.buenga J_GUTIERREZ@edu.clu.upr.upr1 Jack Campin James Weiss Jamey Graham Javier S. Pareja Jeffrey J. Carpenter Jim Butler Jim Clarke Jim.Blythe@edu.cmu.cs.sp.gs13 Joe Levy John B. Melby John Martin John Schonholtz John Sturdy John.Bradshaw@cam.cl Jon (Chris) Connelly Jon Harder Jon Sreekanth Jos van der Meer - Sun Nederland Joseph Fortt Juan A. Rodriguez-Sero Just trying to get it done KORPELA@fi.uku Kanchana Kanchanasut Kang Sun Kathleen Callaway [strandh] Keiji Kanazawa Kevin Chambers Kevin Fitzpatrick Kishore Krshna Krishna E. Bera Laurence Davis Lauri Lynn Laurie White Lawrence K. Kolodney Lord of Dyved Louiqa Raschid Luciano Serafini M.SANVICENTE MACAYA BRIAN R MARSHALL@uk.ac.man.cs MAZUERA@edu.fau.acc Mandy Haggith Manfred Aben Marc Picquendar Marcos Ortiz Maria R. Saenz Martin Newmark Mats Wiren Mert Alberts Michael Carr Michael Gorodnitzky Michael H. Kalantar Michael Rothstein Michael Travers Mike Ess Miren Carranza Mohan Arkalgud Mou-Yen Chen Mr Paul Philbrow Nigel Allen Owen Cooper PMARTIN@edu.UPENN.PENNSAS Paolo Avesani Pat Healey Patricia Z. Rodriguez X5171 Paul Stravers Paul van Arragon Peter H. Hellmonds R.K. Kashyap Rachel Weiss Ralf Allrutz Raman R Ramayya Kumar Randy Haynes Rene G. Rodriguez Ricardo E Sabat Richard H. Miller Rick Innis Robert Dale Robert.Biddle@nz.ac.vuw.comp Roberto Hexsel Romain Shaw S. Karthik S.Ramakrishnan Scott Fertig Sheila Glasbey Sheila Rock (PhD 90) Simon Harriss Stanier A Stefan Merten Stephen A Viller Stephen P Crago Steve Fligelstone Subodh Bapat Subrata Kumar Das TIMO HARMO (FAC. OF SOC. SCI, U OF HELSINKI) Ted Lemon Teresa Anderson Theodore Hope Timo Rossi Tony Plate Truls S. Myklebust Umit Yalcinalp Upasana Uwe Drouven Venu Dasigi Vikram Sethi Vincent J Guinto W.A.Simon Werner Uhrig Y.O. Busia Ya-Xiang Yuan Yossarian Yggy King Young-il Choo ajayshah (Ajay Shah) als@uk.ac.ed.lfcs aversa@earn.itsictp badr@edu.sunysb.sbcs balder@nl.ecn bleier (Alan Bleier) bmayoh@dk.aau.daimi cts@uucp.dragon deidrie@au.edu.uts.socs dm@uk.ac.ed.aipna douglas@com.boeing.atc duul036 gideon@edu.utexas.cs gopichand koganti gregorio Varvakis hnkst2@edu.pitt.lis.idis (labgsa Hanhwe -han- Kim) ilham@edu.mit ip151@no.uib.ii.brems jane@uk.ac.ed.aipna jhess@edu.uci.oac.orion johnl@uk.ac.ed.aipna jrocha@edu.sunysb.sbcs kk@ed.aipna larsaam@no.unit.idt (Lars Aasmund Maehle) lbeltran@edu.berkeley.ced (Liliana Beltran) londono@edu.wvnet.wvu.cerc.pendleton lukose@au.oz.deakin maotse@edu.MIT.ATHENA marthae (Martha Escobar) mcfet@ca.sfu.cs mdgp@uk.ac.ukc nachi@au.oz.necisa.ho.necisa othomas@edu.mit.athena partain@edu.utk.cs paul@uk.ac.ed.aipna pbhyg!pacbell!jachano@com.pacbell piak@ed.aifh raja@edu.msu.cps raul@com.intel.meso reinders@nl.ecn reiter@uk.ac.ed.aipna rw@uk.ac.ed.castle sahni@no.uib.ii.eik shadrach todd shem@york.minster sirothe@com.PacBell.srv (Sheldon Rothenberg) sklarew@edu.upenn.seas.eniac (Dann Sklarew) spock!winston@net.uu.uunet stephen t tirone steven@uk.ac.ed.cogsci thomas ikuenobe top@nl.ecn trefftz@edu.msu.egr.frith tyule@ca.lakeheadu.storm urquijo@nl.philips.prl valderru@fr.irit vdasigi@edu.wright.cs.valhalla (Venu Dasigi) vijay mehrotra xanadu!thelema!STella@net.uu.uunet xexeo@ch.cern.dxlaa -- Ehud Reiter (e.reiter@edinburgh.ac.uk)