Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

2012-06-19 Thread Andrea Veri
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




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GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

2012-06-11 Thread Andrea Veri
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


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Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

2012-06-11 Thread Bastien Nocera
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

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Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

2012-06-11 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
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
 
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Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

2012-06-11 Thread Andrea Veri
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


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