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.
>                        >
>                        
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