Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-20 Thread FFT
If avoiding success at all costs is the goal, wouldn't having a cool logo be counter-productive? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Fernando Henrique Sanches
Voting among 100+ options took a while (15-20 minutes?), but I had no problems. The system may be suboptimal, but it works nicely. It probably won't make people vote in wrong options (at least not too often, mistakes always happen), so it is doing a fine job. Thanks for organizing the voting for u

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, John Meacham wrote: May I recommend 'approval voting' as an alternative? It doesn't require ordering, has nice theoretial properties, and is dead simple to implement. everyone just votes yes on the ones they approve of, you add up the numbers and the highest one wins. Votin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Jared Updike
Wow, I had a nice list of all the numbers of my favorites ranked before voting began (like a week ago), and here they are all re-numbered, rendering all that waste of time... even more of a waste of time... Jared. On 3/17/09, Eelco Lempsink wrote: > Hi there! > > I updated a couple of logo ve

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Sebastian Sylvan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:35 PM, John Meacham wrote: > May I recommend 'approval voting' as an alternative? It doesn't require > ordering, has nice theoretial properties, and is dead simple to > implement. everyone just votes yes on the ones they approve of, you add > up the numbers and the highe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread John Meacham
May I recommend 'approval voting' as an alternative? It doesn't require ordering, has nice theoretial properties, and is dead simple to implement. everyone just votes yes on the ones they approve of, you add up the numbers and the highest one wins. Voting yes on everything doesn't help since then a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Karel Gardas
Sorry for newcomer silly question, but where is the voting page located? Thanks, Karel ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Miguel Mitrofanov
The first glimpse of this vote scared me so much that I've closed the page, stopped the browser and shut my computer down. On 17 Mar 2009, at 16:06, Eelco Lempsink wrote: Hi there! I updated a couple of logo versions and ungrouped and regrouped the (former) number 31. Other than that, the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Eelco Lempsink
On 17 mrt 2009, at 16:34, Gwern Branwen wrote: Can we assume that the next round will be more like 10? Depends a bit on the outcome. There will be one winner, and depending on the winner there might be a number of variations we want to vote about. Only if it's a really really close call m

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Gwern Branwen
2009/3/17 Eelco Lempsink : > Hi there! > > I updated a couple of logo versions and ungrouped and regrouped the (former) > number 31.  Other than that, there was nothing standing in the way of the > voting to begin imho, so I started up the competition. > > By now, I suppose everybody should have re

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell Logo Voting has started!

2009-03-17 Thread Eelco Lempsink
Hi there! I updated a couple of logo versions and ungrouped and regrouped the (former) number 31. Other than that, there was nothing standing in the way of the voting to begin imho, so I started up the competition. By now, I suppose everybody should have received their ballot. If you th