Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Laura, Suggestions as to how?  We could recycle the form we used for the latest logo voting, but I think the stakes are higher now, which might encourage unethical people to build a vote-for-X ballot bot stuffer ... We could rise the technical challenge for a voting bot. That would do the

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:31:15 +0200, Massa, Harald Armin writes: Laura, Suggestions as to how?  We could recycle the form we used for the latest logo voting, but I think the stakes are higher now, which might encourage unethical people to build a vote-for-X ballot bot stuffer ...

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Foord
M.-A. Lemburg wrote: Laura Creighton wrote: Suggestions as to how? We could recycle the form we used for the latest logo voting, but I think the stakes are higher now, which might encourage unethical people to build a vote-for-X ballot bot stuffer ... Answers needed by Monday, when I would

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Dinu Gherman
M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com: The PSF had a look at this system and consensus was that it has too many problems to be of good use. I'm not related to Helios Voting in any way, but sorry - the above statement is too short and mysterious to be of any real help in this process to me, unless you

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Dinu Gherman wrote: M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com: The PSF had a look at this system and consensus was that it has too many problems to be of good use. I'm not related to Helios Voting in any way, but sorry - the above statement is too short and mysterious to be of any real help in this

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Dinu Gherman
Fabio Pliger fabio.pli...@gmail.com: If there was an import method on this app we register automaticaly all the Europython partecipants from the last Edition(s) and any new request applied before... the day of the voting? So only more or less trusted people can vote... and we [ may ] avoid

Re: [Europython-improve] Questions to send back to the proposal authors before we have the vote

2009-10-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:41:24 +0200, M.-A. Lemburg writes: Laura Creighton wrote: I'm going to tell the original posters of both proposals to go start work on the clarifications at 21:00 tonight unless somebody tells me this is a very bad idea. I think all the people who wanted to

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Dinu Gherman
M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com: It's just a very short summary of a rather extensive test done by various PSF members when the same question came up some weeks ago. There were issues with the browser requirements (Java and JavaScript), people got errors, could vote multiple times (at least it

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:16:52 BST, Michael Foord writes: I don't think anyone minds *you* knowing how they voted and everyone will trust your decisions. Michael I could be the official 'keeper of the votes', and this would certainly be simpler. If a bit more tedious for me, which

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:02:01 +0200, Massa, Harald Armin writes: That voting solution Dino pointed out allows bulk upload of emails (as Fabio suggested), so we could have without much work a voting system that allows all known participans from former EPs to vote; and it is extensible

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Laura Creighton
In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:38:37 +0200, Dinu Gherman writes: M.-A. Lemburg m...@egenix.com: It's just a very short summary of a rather extensive test done by various PSF members when the same question came up some weeks ago. There were issues with the browser requirements (Java and

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Foord
Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:16:52 BST, Michael Foord writes: I don't think anyone minds *you* knowing how they voted and everyone will trust your decisions. Michael I could be the official 'keeper of the votes', and this would certainly be simpler.

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
I don't think anyone minds *you* knowing how they voted and everyone will trust your decisions. I would certainly be very happy with you being the 'counter of the vote'. Marc-Andre has also indicated his support (in fact I was just +1'ing his suggestion). Anyone think it is a *bad* idea? as

Re: [Europython-improve] Ok, we're going to have a vote next week.

2009-10-22 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Michael Foord wrote: Laura Creighton wrote: In a message of Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:16:52 BST, Michael Foord writes: I don't think anyone minds *you* knowing how they voted and everyone will trust your decisions. Michael I could be the official 'keeper of the votes', and this would