Elections February 2006

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RE: [Elections] Re: Test election started
by Peter Crowther 12 Feb '06

12 Feb '06

> From: [...] Brent Vukmer > Also, I specified proportional representation using weighted > scores since the CIVS documentation seemed to indicate that > that was the best method for electing a group. Is that the > case? Well, it depends what you want from the group. PR tries to please everyone somewhat, so may select a winning group with a wider support base but not really make anyone totally happy. Condorcet tries to elect a group who win the most paired elections, so may select a winning group with strong support of a majority but that are loathed by the minority. My original (and hence your post to squeak-dev) did say we'd be using Condorcet, not PR. Do we want to change this post-announcement? - Peter

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RE: [Elections] Now it is febrary
by Peter Crowther 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Sorry, I've only just read this after waking up! > From: Brent Vukmer [mailto:brent.vukmer@gmail.com] > 2/10-2/17 sign up and awareness raising (ends midnight 2/17 UTC) > 2/18-2/19 interim; prep for election (ends midnight 2/19 UTC) > 2/20-2/23 vote (ends midnight 2/23 UTC) > Is that correct? To be clear, those are the midnights at the ends of the day, not at the starts of the day (I've never been sure what 'midnight' refers to). > I'm assuming the candidate list is closed Yikes! I'm not - I was assuming that the candidate list is very much open until the awareness-raising and sign-up process ended, but I now realise that I was assuming that in your email 'registering on SqP' included the process for registering as a candidate. Certainly my process email referred to the two processes running in parallel. I don't feel we have advertised the process for standing as a candidate enough; in particular, we have not advertised it to the other stakeholder communities. I would not want to close that until we closed voter registration. I apologise for not picking up that point sooner. - Peter

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Announcement posted on squeak-dev
by Brent Vukmer 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

See http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-February/100549… Hopefully I was clear and accurate enough. I've also emailed the stakeholders listed on http://swiki.krampe.se/castaways/9 ; if they aren't the right contacts at this point I'll try to figure out who is. Thanks, Brent

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Draft announcement for squeak-dev
by Brent Vukmer 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

Here's what I'm thinking of sending out tonight. I'll let it sit here for a bit first in case any of you guys get a chance to review it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are about to have the first-ever elections in the Squeak community. This is a long email; I want to make sure that the steps and timing for the voting process are clearly explained. Here's the process we'll follow: i) Voters from the 'squeak-dev' community must register on SqP and get ranked as Apprentice or higher by 2/17 midnight UTC (if you're not ranked at least Apprentice, contact other SqP folks and ask them to rank you) ii) We will contact the Squeak stakeholder organisations listed at http://swiki.krampe.se/castaways/9 and asked to pass over email addresses of any voters they wish to include in the election. Each organization has until 2/17 midnight UTC to provide their list. iii) Candidates who are willing to stand and meet the criteria described at http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/53.html must announce their candidacy by 2/17 midnight UTC (ideally, with someone to second them). The current list of candidates is: Noury Bouraqadi Ken Causey Peter Crowther Cees de Groot Marcus Denker Stephane Ducasse Craig Latta Tim Rowledge iv) The lists of email addresses from i) and ii) will be combined into a list of voters v) I will create a private election on the CIVS web application ( http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/civs.html) using the voter list from iv) and the candidate list from iii). The election will be run using Condorcet voting with the CIVS Ranked Pairs completion rule. The election will run from February 20th through Febuary 23rd. vi) The CIVS application will send each voter an e-mail informing them that the election is open, reminding them of the date when the election will end, and giving them a URL where they can rank their choices. vii) I will email an announcement that the election has started to squeak-dev and all stakeholder lists. viii) At midnight 2/23 UTC, the vote will be closed. ix) I will send an email declaring the result to squeak-dev and all stakeholder lists, and will ask for feedback. This puts the election a week after the current Board has stepped down. This is due **only** to my negligence as Election Team leader. I have not put in the time needed to get the election done before the current Board steps on 2/16. Here's the timeline in compact form: 2/10-2/17 sign up by voters; list-gathering by admins; last chance for additional candidates (ends midnight 2/17 UTC) 2/18-2/19 set up CIVS for election (ends midnight 2/19 UTC) 2/20-2/23 vote (ends midnight 2/23 UTC) Thanks, Brent

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Testing the CIVS software/process
by Brent Vukmer 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

FYI, this Saturday 2/11 I'm going to set up a test election on CIVS and use the election team members (plus Göran, Ken and Cees if you guys are interested/willing) as the 'voters'. It'll just be a test run of the CIVS software - we'll vote on favorite ice cream colors or something. I'll let the test election run until Saturday 2/18. Thanks, Brent

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RE: [Elections] Now it is febrary
by Peter Crowther 11 Feb '06

11 Feb '06

> From: [...] Brent Vukmer > 2/10 - 2/13 -> Folks can sign up for SqP / seek certification as apprentice; stakeholders can build list of voters > 2/14 -> List of voters is created per Peter's proposal, CIVS election is created > 2/15 -> voting period starts > 2/16 -> Voting period ends > I know this doesn't give folks a ton of time. Does this sound doable? Honestly? No. In my opinion, it's now too late to run to the original timescale, but an extra week would probably [barely] suffice. If we're going for as wide an audience as possible, we need to catch them. Many don't read the mailing list on a daily basis; some don't have Net access on a daily basis. Assuming w're trying to address some of the original criticisms about inclusion, we need much more time for people to sign up; we need some more time to obtain current mailing list membership from other list admins (assuming that they won't all respond in a few hours); and we need to allow the polls to be open for longer. I'd add at least three days to the sign-up period, during which we *must* also get the other list admins ready to send us membership details; at least one day to the interim time where some poor sod has to merge all this stuff together (and go through all the headaches of doing that for the first time); and as much time as we can spare (up to a week) to the voting period itself - although that could be shorter if we do a good awareness-raising exercise on all the related lists in the meantime, such that we can be reasonably sure that 99%+ of our potential audience has at least seen the message. All just my opinions. I'd propose the following alternative: 2/10-end 2/17 UTC sign up and awareness raising 2/18-end 2/19 UTC interim 2/20-end 2/23 UTC vote (this extends the original proposal by exactly a week) Note the timezone specification. Thoughts? - Peter

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Re: [Elections] Now it is febrary
by Brent Vukmer 10 Feb '06

10 Feb '06

I'm going to go ahead with Peter's proposal. I'll send out an announcement to squeak-dev tomorrow. I'd like to suggest the following timeline: 2/10 - 2/13 -> Folks can sign up for SqP / seek certification as apprentice; stakeholders can build list of voters 2/14 -> List of voters is created per Peter's proposal, CIVS election is created 2/15 -> voting period starts 2/16 -> Voting period ends I know this doesn't give folks a ton of time. Does this sound doable? Thanks, Brent P.S. FWIW, I apologize for doing a poor job as team leader. I will step down after the election. P.P.S. Some of you are getting this twice. Gaaah. Gmail, why do you hurt me so.

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RE: [Elections] Now it is febrary
by Peter Crowther 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

> From: [...] goran(a)krampe.se > Let me just say I am still worried. ;) > > What is the current status? No idea. Now that I'm standing for election, I've been staying quieter here. As far as I know, there are no objections to my process email; however, nobody has mail any of the main lists to say what's going to happen. Brent? You there? I'm happy to do this, but I think we *need* the team leader to okay it - and you haven't. - Peter

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Now it is febrary
by goran＠krampe.se 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Hi fellas! Let me just say I am still worried. ;) What is the current status? Are the dates we (the board) set forth in our posting (http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2006-January/099 064.html) still valid? We wrote this: "The candidates should be ready by 2006-02-15, the new board starts at 2006-02-21 (overlapping old board) and the old board officially leaves office at 2006-03-01. This makes it easy to hand off duties etc." Sidenote: The above seemed a reasonable "as late as possible" compromise of our original "no-matter-what-date" of 2006-02-15. regards, Göran

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