I would also mention that we generally expect people voting to either
plan to at least potentially attend the conference, or have a prior
participation/affiliation/interest in the Code4Lib Community. We're not
expecting random people to be voting just for the hell of it, or to help
our a freind with a proposal.
(I also don't think the 'incident' of 'vote pandering' is all that awful
or there was much reason for the 'perpetrator' to have expected anyone
would have a problem with it. I do think when we have a system of open
voting like we have, we should have a statement of what we expect from
voters, however, that they have to read before voting. Which will keep
people from accidentally violating community standards they didn't even
know existed. )
On 12/1/2011 10:40 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
On Dec 1, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Richard, Joel M<[email protected]> wrote:
I feel this whole situation has tainted things somewhat. :(
Let's not blow things out of proportion. The aforementioned
wrong-doing actually seems pretty innocent (there is backstory in the
IRC channel, I'm not going to bring it up here). There is a valid
case for advertising interest in your talks (or location, or t-shirt
design, etc.), especially in an extremely crowded field, and we've
never explicitly set a policy around what is appropriate and what
isn't. I think a simple edit on the part of the "accused" would clear
up any ambiguity of intention.
Our one "known" incident was handled privately, but didn't really
cause us to address the potential for impropriety.
We seem to have quite a bit of support for the splash page. If people
will help me draft up the wording -- ideally something we can point to
when we want to guide people in the right direction in other forums --
I think we can put this issue to bed.
It depends on how harsh you want be ... I mean, if you're on the
fence about ballot stuffing, you could go with something like:
When voting, we expect you to actually read through the list,
and pick the best ones. So yes, go ahead and vote for your
friends and colleagues, but also read through the others
to find other equally good proposals.
-Joe
