On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: > [Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the > Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.] > > Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential > voting to select the board. At the time I opposed it, for reasons I > don't fully recall but which in retrospect probably boiled down to > 'I'm unfamiliar with it.' I believe that at the time we'd also have > had to write the software, which would not have been fun. But I've > come around to believing that this is a better way to run elections. > > It appears that by the time of our next election, we'll have a > third-party, free software solution available for the problem, used > recently and successfully by FreeCulture.org. > http://blog.selectricity.org/?p=4 > > I'm still trying to puzzle through the bylaws (which are a bit of a > mess wrt voting) as to what it would take to actually enact this > change (bottom line is probably that the board can just say 'it should > be this way'), but in the meantime I thought it might be good to have > a bit of discussion here around whether or not this is a good idea.
For what it's worth, I would heartily support moving to a preferential voting system. -- Jonner _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list