As for voting, unless the proposed alternative voting system enables proxy
voting and voting using members registered OpenIDs, we can't use it without a
change to the IPR process (which requires a vote of the membership to do).
Also, for reasons of supporting our own technologies, I believe that we want to
continue having people vote with their registered OpenIDs.
Having been on the elections committee as long as we've had elections, my sense
is that we've gotten the bugs out of the election system by now, and it meets
our needs. Besides, it's paid for. Integrating a new voting system into our
existing membership software (or creating new membership software) would both
be costs we would have to understand before undertaking any changes in that
regard.
My sense is that the remaining costs of using it have to do with us having
Darren do things that we could do for ourselves. (If there's any reason we
can't do them ourselves, we should remedy that before or during this upcoming
election.)
I *do* think we should monitor the costs of running the 2013 election with the
current software so that we have data to base any decision to make a change (or
not make a change) on.
-- Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nat Sakimura
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2012 4:42 PM
To: [email protected]; Don Thibeau (OIDF ED)
Subject: [OpenID board] Infrastructure update
Don,
Another issue that the board has to tackle is the infrastructure update.
As I understand, the current infrastructure is very expensive to run an
election/membership voting.
At the same time, you have been indicating the intension to move the current
web page infrastructure from Wordpress to Drupal.
I suspect these two are dealt with together.
I would appreciate any update on it in the next EC call so that we can report
it back to the board.
FYI, I have built a Drupal site that copied most of the Wordpress content with
the URLs intact.
Drupal also has a module called Advanced Voting, which seems to be capable of
doing the voting that does not reveal the result until it is closed.
With a shopping card module, it seems it is capable to unify the copropate
website, membership, and the voting capability.
--
Nat Sakimura (=nat)
Chairman, OpenID Foundation
http://nat.sakimura.org/
@_nat_en
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