Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-17 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Dave, Norbert, On 10/06/2011 15:30, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, [...] First, thank you both for this discussion, I'm jumping here, just for a comment on the online Opal. OpenSTV is GPL, but only available for download for a fee. Really? News to me! It wasn't up until OpenSTV 1.6. I'd be

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 07:02 +0300, David Nelson wrote: I remember that, some time ago, Michael Meeks suggested OpenSTV as a tool (http://www.openstv.org/). Right. STV (Meek) is a key part of the election and bylaws since it produces a 'fair' result; it requires ranking the candidates.

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Michael Meeks wrote: It is possible that Maemo re-used the code and made it more generic; not sure - Dave might know (?). When I got it, the code had the anonymous token/voter token system for anonymising votes already, but used the old pick N, and we aggregate all the choices to get

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-10 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote: I strongly suggest we simply copy the GNOME process here; this generates a unique random key per person which is mailed out, and used instead of a name when voting; thus the

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-10 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Thanks for the explanations... [...] Then we communicate the anonymous token to the voter, and tell him to write it down somewhere so that he can check his vote later. how does one figure out what information is in the

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, FYI: We asked the Membership Committee to follow-up with some information on membership status and elections soon, so stay tuned. :-) Florian -- Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org Steering Committee and Founding Member of The Document Foundation Tel: +49 8341 99660880 |

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-07 Thread Greg Stein
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 18:44, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hi, FYI: We asked the Membership Committee to follow-up with some information on membership status and elections soon, so stay

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-07 Thread David Nelson
Hi, I remember that, some time ago, Michael Meeks suggested OpenSTV as a tool (http://www.openstv.org/). -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:

[steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello everyone, given that the Foundation is close to being created, and that we have now nearly 100 approved members (thanks to the membership committee for their great work!), I guess that in the near future we should think about holding elections for the future board of directors. IIRC,

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Davies
:) - Original Message From: Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 10:19:06 Subject: [steering-discuss] About elections Hello everyone, given that the Foundation is close to being created, and that we have now

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Tom, Tom Davies wrote on 2011-06-06 11.22: I think 100 is still quite small compared to the numbers of people actually involved. So the list of members is still more like a special-interest sub-set. The founder members are doing a great job and i hope that they stay in place for a long

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Davies
- Original Message From: Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 11:02:56 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] About elections Hi, 2011/6/6 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org: Tom Davies wrote

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread sophie
Hi Volker, all, On 06/06/2011 13:02, Volker Merschmann wrote: [...] I'd like to add that not every contributor wants to be a member of the foundation. Especially those who are payed for the work might not like to have a too personal connection. We can ask the membership committee if there is a

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Tom Davies
- Original Message From: sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 12:10:30 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] About elections Hi Volker, all, On 06/06/2011 13:02, Volker Merschmann wrote: [...] I'd like to add

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: - Original Message From: sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com To: steering-discuss@documentfoundation.org Sent: Mon, 6 June, 2011 12:35:04 Subject: Re: [steering-discuss] About elections Hi Tom, On 06/06/2011

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:41 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Until then it is pretty much vaporware and there is not much to do, even less to vote about. 100% agreed. I'm eager to vote in support of / on our SC - since it seems some criticise them for being un-elected :-) Nice to knock

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:52:17 +0100, Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com a écrit : On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 09:41 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: Until then it is pretty much vaporware and there is not much to do, even less to vote about. 100% agreed. I'm eager to vote in support of

Re: [steering-discuss] About elections

2011-06-06 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 6/6/11 8:07 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Michael Meeksmichael.me...@novell.com a écrit : 100% agreed. I'm eager to vote in support of / on our SC - since it seems some criticise them for being un-elected :-) Nice to knock down all the objections one by one of course. +1 +1