Re: Preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Žygimantas Beručka wrote: The results are: yes (125 votes) no (22 votes) Even though I've voted yes, the voting activity level is depressing I must say. How many members the Foundation has currently? Voting in referenda is generally not very high, and there was 0 debate

Re: Preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dave Neary Voting in referenda is generally not very high, and there was 0 debate on this issue on the list (I did see some grumbling on IRC, but nothing concrete), so it's hardly an initiative that's going to mobilise the troops. There was buttloads of discussion around the

Re: Preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dave Neary Voting in referenda is generally not very high, and there was 0 debate on this issue on the list (I did see some grumbling on IRC, but nothing concrete), so it's hardly an initiative that's going to mobilise the troops. There was buttloads of

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Quim Gil
What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes? On 10/16/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a suggestion for the coming board elections which I think might make things more interesting (and, coincidentally, better). We've always proceded by giving members N votes,

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes? I don't understand - you mean if there are fewer than 7 candidates? Constitutional crisis, I suppose... everyone's elected, and they invite specific people to fill up the board maybe? That's unrelated to my

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:53:28 +0200 Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Quim Gil wrote: What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes? I don't understand - you mean if there are fewer than 7 candidates? Constitutional crisis, I suppose... everyone's elected, and they

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On 10/16/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Quim Gil wrote: What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes? I don't understand - you mean if there are fewer than 7 candidates? Constitutional crisis, I suppose... everyone's elected, and they invite specific people to

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Dave Neary Quim Gil wrote: What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes? I don't understand - you mean if there are fewer than 7 candidates? Quim meant fewer than seven who receive votes at all (implying that there would be other candidates running who received none).

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quim Gil wrote: What happens when you get less than 7 people with votes? Excuse me, I think I misunderstood. You mean, suppose we have 10 candidates, 150 voters, and the distribution of votes is: Candidate 1: 120 Candidate 2: 107 Candidate 3: 64 Candidate 4: 63 Candidate 5: 52

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Luis Villa
On 10/16/07, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm certainly not against moving to STV, but that would need software, and considerable retraining for members not familiar with the system. http://selectricity.org/ open + easy. ___ foundation-list

Re: Suggestion for coming elections

2007-10-16 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mardi 16 octobre 2007, à 08:44 -0500, George Kraft a écrit : Here is the balloting scheme used by the former Free Standards Group. It was simple and I'm not aware of any resulting controversy. In approval voting, each voter selects as few or as many candidates for whom they wish to

Re: Preliminary results for Membership Vote Regarding Change to Bylaws

2007-10-16 Thread Richard Stallman
Is it really a too difficult and too time consuming task to spend a minute to cast one's vote in a fortnight for an average GNOME Foundation member? I had no strong opinion so I left it up to the others. ___ foundation-list mailing list