Hi all, *Short Reminder:* Voting only for your buddies and voting without doing research is how we got into this mess in the first place. It's exactly the problem we're trying to fix. If you can't spend half an hour checking out the candidates and their background - your vote is more damaging than an abstention.
I spent some time researching GitHub profiles and reading the nominations threads. I tried to create a ranking for how active each candidate had proven to be in the open source community. I then adjusted my rankings to account for people who I knew were active in this mailing list or had something extra to offer that would be important for the committee. Cees-Jan Kiewiet Tobias Nyholm Larry Garfield Matthew Weier O’Phinney Graham Daniels Marc Alexander David Négrier Korvin Szanto Same Minée Sara Golemon Michael Heap Samantha Quiñones Beau Simensen Gary Hockin Jason Coward Chris Tankersley Stefano Torresi Steve Winter Jeremy Coates Regards, Andrew On Friday, December 9, 2016 at 4:47:36 PM UTC, Michael Cullum wrote: > > Hi all, > > We’ve finally got to the voting stage in the first set of Core Committee > Elections where 12 CC members will be elected to staggered terms. > > Candidates List (Alphabetical) > > ---------------------------------------- > > View full list of candidates with twitter handles and links to nomination > topics here <http://bit.ly/cc-election-candidates> ( > bit.ly/cc-election-candidates) or a list of names in copy/pasteable > format below. > > Beau Simensen > > Cees-Jan Kiewiet > > Chris Tankersley > > David Négrier > > Gary Hockin > > Graham Daniels > > Jason Coward > > Jeremy Coates > > Korvin Szanto > > Larry Garfield > > Lukas Kahwe Smith > > Marc Alexander > > Matthew Weier O’Phinney > > Michael Heap > > Samantha Quiñones > > Same Minée > > Sara Golemon > > Stefano Torresi > > Steve Winter > > Tobias Nyholm > > Role of the CC > > ---------------------- > > The brief summary of the new FIG structure is summised in bit.ly/fig-3-0. > The quote pertaining to ‘What is the CC’ is: > > They hold the entrance votes and final acceptance vote. These votes are to >> see if the FIG wants to consider this problem for a PSR, and to have >> oversight of Working Groups and make sure working groups have all relevant >> stakeholders have their interests represented within them. Their final >> acceptance vote is on the quality of the spec, ensuring consistency >> throughout the FIG, ensuring it meets the FIG’s overall direction and aims, >> making sure stakeholders interests were represented, and the competence of >> the working group. > > > Essentially they are a technical steering committee for the PHP FIG and it > is designed to represent (and be representative of) the entire PHP > ecosystem from different types of PHP project (Framework, Library, Consumer > Package) to non-PHP things that relate to the ecosystem like PHP Runtimes, > IDEs, PHP in business to different generalised areas of specialty such as > security or async. > > Who can vote? > > -------------------- > > You can vote if you are > > - > > A project member > - > > Have been active in the FIG group’s discussions or activities within > the past 12 months and are listed here <http://bit.ly/cc-voters> ( > http://bit.ly/cc-voters). > > > If you wish to be on the list of community members please see here > <https://gist.github.com/michaelcullum/9f5fd32efce27fb5517dd43bf814f16f#file-xnotetocandidates-md> > > about how to be added. Votes of anyone not on the list will be discarded. > > How to vote? > > ------------------- > > The voting system used is STV[1][2], so basically, there is no tactical > voting possible; vote for who you want, even if they are a less popular > candidates as your vote will move down to a different candidate if you back > an unpopular candidate who doesn't have enough votes; if a candidate is > elected, their surplus votes are also re-allocated so you are not punished > for backing popular candidates either. There is no quorum, you are of > course entitled to not vote and it will not count as a missed vote on the > voting sheet. > > You may, if you wish, not rank all twenty candidates but only rank those > with whom you have a preference (top 5, 12, 15 etc.). > > Reply to this topic ranking the candidates in order of preference for > example: > > 1. Luke > > 2. Leia > > 3. Anakin > > 4. Rey > > 5. Padmé > > 6. Finn > > The vote ends at 23:59 UTC on the 23rd December, and the result will then > (hopefully/likely) be announced on the 24th December. > > Note to candidates: > > -------------------------- > > People have asked about this so to clarify, you are highly encouraged to > vote for yourselves. For full rationale please see here > <https://gist.github.com/michaelcullum/9f5fd32efce27fb5517dd43bf814f16f#note-to-candidates> > . > > Many thanks, > > Michael Cullum > > [1]: STV User-friendly Explanation > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI > > [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PHP Framework Interoperability Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to php-fig+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to php-fig@googlegroups.com. 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