eelco: > Hi there! > > It's been quiet for a while around the 'new logo' competition, but here > is how it is going to work: > > The list with options can be found here (for now): > http://community.haskell.org/~eelco/poll.html Notice that some (very) > similar logos are grouped as one option (thanks to Ian Lynagh) All > submissions compete, so that still makes more than a 100 options! > > The voting system we'll use is the Condorcet Internet Voting System > (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html). The poll won't be public, > but every subscriber to Haskell-Cafe will get a (private) voting ballot > by email. The poll will (probably) start March 16 and run for about a > week (don't worry, there will be a strict deadline communicated). When > the poll is over, the results will be viewable by everybody. > > The CIVS allows easy grouping and ordering, so the task of ordering 100 > options should be doable within 5-10 minutes. If you're in a hurry you > can do it a lot faster, just pick your favorite and put it first. If you > want to learn more about condorcet voting, the CIVS site and Wikipedia > are your friends. > > I'll supervise the poll and make sure it's started, stopped and all > Haskell-Cafe subscribers get a ballot (Simon Marlow provided the email > addresses). Since I'm going on a (probably internet deprived) holiday > for a week _and_ to make sure I haven't overlooked anything, I'm > announcing it now but won't start the poll till March 16. Of course, > I'd love to hear about anything that I missed and/or that might > influence the voting process in a significant way. (There are probably > some people subscribed with multiple addresses, but I'll be using the > subscriber list from yesterday, so signing up now with lots of addresses > won't get you more ballots ;)
Excellent work Eelco, and thanks for pushing this forward! -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe