Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-26 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: I too think the election committee should just decide. (From board discussions, I'm pretty confident they wanted to do it however Maemo does it, but at this point I think the election committee should decide.) I'd replace decide with clarify here - it's clear there

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-26 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, A small correction to explain exactly how random transfers work: Filippo Argiolas wrote: - with Random Transfer, 20 ballots are picked randomly (assuming those 60 votes are already random you can just pick last 20 received, first 20, or more complex randomizing methods). The thing is that

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-26 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Dave Neary wrote: A small correction to explain exactly how random transfers work: Well, actually, I just found out from the OpenSTV guys, that how Filippo said is how they work. In count 1, Vincent has 60 votes, they're shoved into a stack. The top 33 votes from the stack get

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-26 Thread Shaun McCance
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 19:22 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: 2009/6/26 Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org: Hi, Dave Neary wrote: A small correction to explain exactly how random transfers work: Well, actually, I just found out from the OpenSTV guys, that how Filippo said is how they work.

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-26 Thread john palmieri
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi, Stormy Peters wrote: I too think the election committee should just decide. (From board discussions, I'm pretty confident they wanted to do it however Maemo does it, but at this point I think the election committee

Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

2009-06-26 Thread Bruno Boaventura
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Dave Nearydne...@gnome.org wrote: Hi Tobias, Tobias Mueller wrote: These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to electi...@gnome.org. The challenges have to be sent before Tuesday, June 30, 2009, 23:59 UTC. Please note that these results should not