Hi, Le samedi 16 février 2008, à 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa a écrit : > [Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the > Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.] > > Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential > voting to select the board. At the time I opposed it, for reasons I > don't fully recall but which in retrospect probably boiled down to > 'I'm unfamiliar with it.' I believe that at the time we'd also have > had to write the software, which would not have been fun. But I've > come around to believing that this is a better way to run elections. > > It appears that by the time of our next election, we'll have a > third-party, free software solution available for the problem, used > recently and successfully by FreeCulture.org. > http://blog.selectricity.org/?p=4
It's hard to know if it's a good thing without trying it, but I think I'd be interested to try preferential voting for the next elections. As long as there's software ready for this, I mean (which seems to be the case). Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
