We made it to one of the island's biggest daily newspapers :D http://www.primerahora.com/organizacionestudiantildemayaguezinvitaaeleccionesparaescogerrector-570986.html
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Rich Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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