Gabriel Perez <[email protected]> writes: >We managed to build colegiodemocrati.co and get more than 3000 people >to register for voting in our elections. The elections are already >over but Selectricity is giving us an error when we try to see the >results. This Thursday the committee that will recommend a candidate >to the board of trustees will make their final report. If we don't get >the results of the election tomorrow all of our effort will have been >mostly in vain. Also tons of people are expecting the results. We've >been trying to reach people from Selectricity and Mako since Monday >but we haven't received any responses. Can anybody try to reach him >for us?
I've pinged him, in an out-of-band channel. No promises. Selectricity is a great tool; I think it needs a full-time team around it handling uptime, normal bugs, customer service, etc. Seems a reasonable startup idea, but I haven't run the numbers... -K >On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Adi Kamdar <[email protected]> >wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
