> Alain: 1. If a clear winner does not emerge from
this
> first voting round, then I suggest that we eliminate
> the alternatives that are the least chosen. Several
> rounds later we will have the only the cream of the
> crop leftover.
Uli: So far it doesn't look as if this were happening.
Alain: Are you saying that a clear winner is NOT
emerging?
Alain: What do you think of my eliminative approach?
> 2. Some of the names in the list could be used as a
> name of our organization rather than the name of
> our software. We might want to vote on the name of
our
> organization after we have completed the voting on
> the name of our software.
Uli: If you really think we need a different name for
the company than the software has.
Alain: It isn't absolutely necessary, but it might be
helpful to distinguish between our group and what it
produces, for ourselves and for our documentation
(particularly if legal documentation is concerned).
> 3. Then we will have to find a way to finance the
> registration of the trademark(s) on these names...
Uli: I guess this will be the most complicated part.
Anyone ever tried to do fund raising in High School?
Alain: The HyperCard List managed a fund-raising
effort to publish an add in a magazine easily enough.
It would be better however if we didn't have to depend
on charity to finance our activities.
Uli: I strongly suggest that we allow both web-based
*and* mail-based votes in the future. I personally
prefer e-mail to visiting a web site because I can do
it offline, which makes it much more convenient, less
hectic and inexpensiver.
Alain: How about a web page that you consult locally,
fill out the voting form, then submit to our
votes-clerk in the form of an E-mail?
Alain: Otherwise, how about a pre-formatted
template-like mail message. You fill in the blanks and
mail it.
Alain: The bottom-line is that I want to find a
structured way to vote that can easily be automated,
irregardless of the communications channel used.
Alain: Thus, E-mail is fine by me, but its default
un-structured nature will complicate our automation
efforts a little bit. No problem though if people
discipline themselves and/or we develop tools/systems
that can handle loosely-structured information.
Alain: This is particularly true if we want to make
the evaluation criteria and the grading scales more
complex. We don't want to limit ourselves to either/or
propositions. We want multiple-choices, percentages, etc.
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