Killing 'em, Gabriel! This is awesome. R
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Gabriel Perez <[email protected]>wrote: > Look at what are chapter built over the weekend :) > > colegiodemocrati.co > > It translates to, democratic school > > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Alec Story <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From the civs website: >> >> However, CIVS hasn't been stress-tested at 10,000 voters or higher. The >>> server is implemented in Perl, so it can easily handle 4,000 voters per >>> hour. If your voters don't show up faster than that, and they usually don't, >>> it should be fine no matter how many voters there are. If you want to have a >>> private poll, the system will only allow you to add 1,000 voters at a time, >>> but in principle you can have as many voters as you want. Note that using >>> the experimental proportional method for your poll can dramatically increase >>> the load on the CIVS server, so avoid that mode for large polls. >> >> >> So it sounds like it could handle your load, but I don't really know how >> happy the CS department would be... >> Professor Myers is pretty nice, so you could always ask him. They also >> have a Spanish localization if you'd find that useful. >> >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hey Gabriel, >>> >>> Another voting system discussed on this list is Condorcet Internet >>> Voting Service at Cornell: >>> >>> http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html >>> >>> Please keep us updated on the situation at your school. I am sorry to >>> hear that you are all having so much trouble. >>> >>> Kevin >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:46 PM, <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > 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. >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Alec Story >> Cornell University >> Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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