[Elections] Re: Checking in / next steps

[Brent Vukmer]

OK, crud.  Fat fingers strike once again.  I meant to save a draft,
not send.... Sigh.  Sorry about that.

That middle sentence should be "I am very strongly biased towards
using a low-tech solution for the upcoming election."

I'll send a more in-depth post out tonight when I get home from work.



On 1/10/06, Brent Vukmer <brent.vukmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello folks.  I apologize for being silent so long.  I think I overdid
> my traditional Christmas celebration/hibernation... :)
>
> Thanks Lex, Daniel, Peter, Ken and Cees for your discussion. I'd like
> to hear from Benjamin and Masashi, too.  I will post a longer email
> (probably sometime tonight EST) with my thoughts about the upcoming
> election.  (In preparation for that, I'm re-reading the elections
> posts so far.)
>
> Here are some initial thoughts about our short-term priorities, in
> which I realize I'm stating the obvious :).   The immediate priority
> for this team is the upcoming election in February.  We need to come
> up with a list of candidates and a means for choosing the candidates,
> and then we need to actually run the election.
>
> I am very strongly biased towards using a low-tech solution to
>
>
>
> I would prefer that we spend a minimum of time in the short-term on
> tool-building and reputation-system algorithm analysis.
>
> I've skimmed the various suggestions (SqP, Condorcet, Agora, wiki) In
> the short term, I prefer that we err on the side of simplicity, and
> focus on "social engineering" rather than building tools.
>