I am very shortly travelling abroad for several weeks and will not have (reliable access to) a computer, but isn't this a task for one of the haskell web-apps people (HSP, HAppS, Turbinado, etc.) to show us once and for all why *their* library is better than the competition? :-) On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote:
> Would you be willing to set up a little online voting system (or do you > know of one) so we can implement this? > > Assume there'll be < 10 candidates. > > -- Don > > sylvan: > > 2008/12/21 Paul Johnson <[1]p...@cogito.org.uk> > > > > This suggests that the current effort to find a new logo for Haskell > > needs to go back to the basics. Its no good expecting consensus on > one > > of the suggestions because there are too many options and everyone > has > > their favourite. Nothing will attract a majority of the community. > > > > I agree with this, which I why I would propose using Condorcet-voting. > > Personally I find the current logo horrendous. I think it's ugly and > > intimidating at the same time. I don't really care too much which one > of > > the proposals should win, just so long as I can weed out some of the > ones > > I really hate. > > Condorcet voting will pick a good compromise, where someone like me > could > > just put all the acceptable ones at shared #1, and all the ones I > dislike > > at #2., and someone with stronger opinions could flesh it out some > more. > > The point being that the "least disliked" logo wins out. Maybe nobody > will > > be happy, but hopefully most people won't be deeply unhappy with it. > > It would be a shame if there's lots of votes that are spread out over > a > > large group of fairly similar logos that are good, and then a crappy > one > > wins out with 6% of the vote because there weren't any others like it > so > > the votes for that "style" weren't spread out over multiple entries. > > Wikipedia: > > [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_voting > > > > -- > > Sebastian Sylvan > > +44(0)7857-300802 > > UIN: 44640862 > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. mailto:p...@cogito.org.uk > > 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_voting > > > _______________________________________________ > > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > -- Sebastian Sylvan +44(0)7857-300802 UIN: 44640862
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