Elections February 2006

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Stepping down (and stepping up)
by Brent Vukmer 01 Mar '06

01 Mar '06

Well, election 0.1 is over. I think it went alright. There's certainly plenty of food for thought for the next time around. Several folks on the squeak-dev thread about the election said that it felt rushed. I agree. One of the reasons that it felt rushed was me, unfortunately. I'll be stepping down from the Elections Team soon. I've appreciated the chance to lead this team, but don't have the commitment necessary to set aside the time for it. Ken Causey and I have asked Daniel whether he's willing to serve as team leader. I'll let Daniel post his thoughts about it. I think he's a good choice. Thanks, Brent

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RE: [Elections] Reflections on the election process
by Peter Crowther 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

> From: Cees De Groot [mailto:cdegroot@gmail.com] > Good idea. And I do hope you'll step back into the election team now > that your aspirations for a position on the board have been smothered > by a last place outcome ;-) (Grin). I think it got a couple more candidates to stand, on the 'What? *That* idiot??!' principle, so I'm happy. Quite willing to come back here and be highly opinionated. > Furthermore, my gut feeling is that as long as the election team tries > very hard to be transparent and listen to the community, people will > not care too much who is a member. I'm inclined to agree, but it's probably worth asking the question. > I've run "real" elections. The > requirement for being a candidate here for, say, the city council is > 30 supporters and something like 50 or 100 euro. The requirement for > manning the election bureau, however, is IIRC just a Dutch passport > and no police record.... Heh. I have an English passport and no police record (other than being a member of Amnesty and being moderately vocal against some of the crazier erosions of human rights in the UK). Does that count? :-) - Peter

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Reflections on the election process
by Peter Crowther 26 Feb '06

26 Feb '06

Well, we've now done our first election according to v0.1 of the process. Should we now be reflecting on the process and soliciting input from the community so that we can improve the process where necessary? Also, should the make-up of the elections team itself now be decided by the same process? - Peter

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SqP, SM, stakeholder email lists received
by Brent Vukmer 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

I will be out of town today but back tomorrow. My plan is to do a quick validation of the email addresses per Cees's advice, then combine the lists into a single sorted set, then set up the election on CIVS. I'll probably just grab something that looks like from CPAN to check the email addresses are correctly structured; is there anything else I should do before combining the lists ? Thanks, Brent

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Voting registry - SqP
by Cees De Groot 18 Feb '06

18 Feb '06

Hi, I've snapshotted the SqP trust metric at midnight UTC. Tomorrow night (europe time), i'll send the voter's list from SqP to this list - if Ken gets to it before me, fine, but I won't be able to make it before that. Regards, Cees

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RE: [Elections] voters list
by Peter Crowther 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

> From: [...] Yoshiki Ohshima > Who should I send the mail addresses to? I believe Brent Vukmer is going to be creating the election on CIVS. If you wish to send me a copy of the list as well, I'm willing to act as backup in case Brent's unavailable. - Peter

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voters list
by Yoshiki Ohshima 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hello, I'm the contact person of a stake holder community, and have several email addresses of people who are interested in voting. Who should I send the mail addresses to? If it is the members of elections team, who are they? I couldn't figure it out exactly by googling. (Of course, the last thing I want to do is send it to a public mailing list.) Thank you! -- Yoshiki

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RE: [Elections] Re: Elections - 24 hours to register!!!
by Peter Crowther 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

> From: [...] Daniel Vainsencher > What is the situation with our contact people to communities off the > list? They might not have as convenient a tool as SqP. We've already said that we'll use their subscriber lists. Assuming the list admin has a way of obtaining that subscriber list (most will, I think), they're in a strong position. That said, who's contacting these folks and when? I'll undertake to do it if soneone can dig out a list of names and addresses (or the URL where they're archived). - Peter

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Re: Elections - 24 hours to register!!!
by Daniel Vainsencher 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

What is the situation with our contact people to communities off the list? They might not have as convenient a tool as SqP. if they tell us they need more time, we should seriously consider delaying the deadline (and therefore everything else) by a couple of weeks. Daniel Cees De Groot wrote: >Hi all, > >Some numbers: > >- Subscribers to squeak-dev: 1401. >- Certified Squeak People accounts: 237. > >That is *not* a good ratio. It means that our voting registry will >have some 15-20% of people on squeak-dev, so even if everyone on SqP >votes it will still be a small minority who will have backed the >"institution" SqF. > >Please, please - go to http://people.squeakfoundation.org/ and create >an account if you haven't done so. Add a pointer to your homepage >and/or a small description, for me that's been enough so far to at >least recognize someone as being a "real person" which for me triggers >certification to at least Apprentice, which is what you need to be in >the voting registry. > >I want a strong board that can make decisions knowing that they're >backed by a substantial number of Squeakers. And 15% ain't >substantial, in my eyes... > >Regards, > >Cees > > >

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Test election started
by Brent Vukmer 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

I just created a test election on CIVS, named "Programming Languages Poll". I signed everyone on the elections list up as voters. Hope you all don't mind :) Peter - I couldn't figure out how to specify the completion rule. So although the election invitation will say that it's using CIVS Ranked-Pair, I'm not sure that's the case...

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