Neil McGovern wrote: [...] > The following members are appointed to the SPI board: > Bdale Garbee > David Graham > Luk Claes > Joerg Jaspert > Joshua D. Drake > Martin Zobel-Helas
Well done to the new members. When do you meet for the first time? However, it's interesting that I think both first-past-the-post and alternative vote (also known as instant run-off voting, reportedly recommended by Robert's Rules for election-by-mail) would have resulted in this same board: 1. Bdale Garbee 2. David Graham 3. Joshua D. Drake 4. Martin 'Joey' Schulze 5. Luk Claes 6. MJ Ray More generally, is SPI's type of Condorcet ever likely to elect someone who polarises views, or who many inexplicably dislike? What does this say for any plan to use a Condorcet for debian's social committee? Could majorities always prevent minority reps? For SPI, does this mean that candidates from smaller projects are at the mercy of the debian project? (More commentary and navel-gazing illustration at http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/spi#resultelections if you want it.) > 95 votes were received. Finally, as I understand it, turn-out was 25% of voting members (not the 25% of SPI members that some press reported). Why was turn-out so low (at least, I think it's low for a vote-by-mail in this type of organisation) and what steps will SPI be taking to increase it? Thanks and best wishes, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Experienced webmaster-developers for hire http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ Also: statistician, sysadmin, online shop builder, workers co-op. Writing on koha, debian, sat TV, Kewstoke http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
