Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Andrea Veri wrote: Dear Foundation Members, These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to electi...@gnome.org. The challenges have to be sent before Tuesday, 2012-06-19, 23:59 UTC. Please note these results should not be considered final until any challenge have been resolved. The results were not challenged so the following people will be in the Board: Bastien Nocera Emmanuele Bassi Andreas Nilsson Joanmarie Diggs Tobias Mueller Shaun McCance Seif Lotfy Cheers, Andrea Veri on behalf of the GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results
Dear Foundation Members, the GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors. We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify their ballot. (see below) These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to electi...@gnome.org. The challenges have to be sent before Tuesday, 2012-06-19, 23:59 UTC. Please note these results should not be considered final until any challenge have been resolved. The results can be found at: http://vote.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=17 A list of all votes can be found at: http://vote.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=17 If the results are not challenged, the new Board will be composed by: Bastien Nocera Emmanuele Bassi Andreas Nilsson Joanmarie Diggs Tobias Mueller Shaun McCance Seif Lotfy Some figures about the votes: there were 375 registered voters. 186 voters sent valid ballots. Cheers, Andrea Veri on behalf of the GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results
Hey Andrea, On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:30 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: Dear Foundation Members, the GNOME Foundation Membership Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors. We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to verify their ballot. (see below) These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to electi...@gnome.org. The challenges have to be sent before Tuesday, 2012-06-19, 23:59 UTC. Please note these results should not be considered final until any challenge have been resolved. The results can be found at: http://vote.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=17 A list of all votes can be found at: http://vote.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=17 If the results are not challenged, the new Board will be composed by: Bastien Nocera Emmanuele Bassi Andreas Nilsson Joanmarie Diggs Tobias Mueller Shaun McCance Seif Lotfy Some figures about the votes: there were 375 registered voters. 186 voters sent valid ballots. First, congratulations to all the new Board members, and many thanks to all the candidates that didn't make the cut. Reading the results[1], I saw in round 3: Candidate Bastien Nocera was chosen by breaking the tie randomly. How was this done randomly? What would the results have been if Emmanuele was selected as the tie-breaker instead? Cheers [1]: http://vote.gnome.org/results.php?election_id=17 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results
On 06/11/2012 08:56 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: First, congratulations to all the new Board members, and many thanks to all the candidates that didn't make the cut. Nice list. Congrats new board, and everyone else who ran. Reading the results[1], I saw in round 3: Candidate Bastien Nocera was chosen by breaking the tie randomly. How was this done randomly? What would the results have been if Emmanuele was selected as the tie-breaker instead? It wouldn't have made any difference in this case at all. In fact, from what I understand it can never make any difference when breaking ties choosing a winner. It *does*, however, when breaking ties eliminating candidates. See this short paper for an overview of how it can matter (and why not use randomness to break ties!): http://www.votingmatters.org.uk/ISSUE18/I18P6.PDF Cheers, behdad Cheers [1]: http://vote.gnome.org/results.php?election_id=17 ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Bastien Nocera wrote: Reading the results[1], I saw in round 3: Candidate Bastien Nocera was chosen by breaking the tie randomly. How was this done randomly? What would the results have been if Emmanuele was selected as the tie-breaker instead? The OpenSTV software asked me to either break the tie manually or randomly for the candidates Bastien Nocera and Emmanuele Bassi. I did select the 'Random' option but tried generating the results with the 'Manual' option by selecting both the two availale choices. The final results were exactly the same. You can reproduce this by: 1. grabbing the publicly available .blt file at [1]. 2. downloading the OpenSTV software (apt-get install openstv or by compiling it for any other distribution [2], couldn't find a working RPM) 3. simulating the election by selecting the 'Scottish STV' option. cheers, Andrea [1] http://vote.gnome.org/blt.php?election_id=17 [2] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openstv/openstv_1.6.1-1.debian.tar.gz signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list