On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gabriel, > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 14:52, Gabriel Perez <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > [...] > > We are planning on holding electronic elections at our University next > week > > to let the students and professors choose the next chancellor. Although > the > > vote won't have any direct consequences we are hoping that if the deputy > > chancellor loses by a huge margin and this gets media attention, the > board > > of trustees will be forced by public opinion to change the process or at > > least choose a better candidate. But we need a trusted, open source and > > secure platform for this election. We immediately thought of Selectricity > > since we were familiar with it due to the board elections. Does anybody > here > > work directly in Selectricity? Can anybody here contact Mako and ask him > if > > he can help us? > > I imagine it would help (and speed things up) if you specified what > specifically you need. (from him or anyone) > > e.g. do you just want to know if it's ready for the extra load and > what the escalation procedure is if it breaks or do you need something > done ahead of the vote? are you looking to have your own one-off > instance just for this vote or you want to use the main > selectricity.org instance? > Well first of all we will need the vote to be created since election creation is not public yet. Also we would like to know if they can handle the load. There are around 14,000 students and faculty at our school but we really don't know how many of them would participate of the process. But most likely only a fraction of the students will participate. Using the selectricity.org instance would be perfect, there is no need to create a new one. > > GOTV! :) > > -Jeremy > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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