This is great! Do keep us updated. -Adi
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Gabriel Perez <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss > >
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