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[ANN] Squeak Foundation Election 2008 coming up!
by goran＠krampe.se 04 Feb '08

04 Feb '08

(Ron beat me to it :) but this one is official) Dear Squeakers, A year has passed (oh, so quickly) and it is time to reflect a bit and ramp up your democratic rights here in Squeak country! Every year we elect the Squeakfoundation Board (http://www.squeak.org/Foundation) consisting of seven members from our community. This year I have stepped up as the election leader of 2008 relieving Daniel Vainsencher of this duty (thank you Daniel for earlier elections!) and hope to lead us through it without too many problems - after all, we know how this works by now. :) The schedule and process is as follows, only slightly adjusted from earlier years: Now through 22nd February (circa 18 days): Nominations of board members Candidates should nominate themselves on the squeak-dev mailing list. Or if you nominate someone else, make sure that person really wants to run. :) 22nd February to 29th February: Campaigning period During this period the candidates should ideally present themselves and the community can ask questions. We will probably organise some form of structured Q&A activity - details to follow soon. 1st march 6PM (18.00) UTC: Online election starts using the CIVS system The voting period is one week long and ballots are sent out via email. Only Squeakers rated as Apprentice (or higher) on people.squeakfoundation.org are eligible to vote - make sure your email address is up to date there!!! 8th march 6PM (18.00) UTC: Online election ends Results will be announced as soon as possible on the 8th or 9th. IMPORTANT: In order to vote - be sure to confirm that you have an account on people.squeakfoundation.org and that your email address is up to date. If you are not already registered on the site do so as soon as possible. Include information about your participation in the Squeak community to aid everyone in determining your appropriate certification. If you have an account but cannot access it any longer please email box-admins(a)lists.squeakfoundation.org and specify your account name. When the voting period starts all voters will receive an email with instructions and a link to the voting website. If there are any further questions, just reply and I will follow up on squeak-dev. More information and details will follow and everything about the election can be tracked here: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6025 regards, Göran Krampe on behalf of the Election Team

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RE: [Elections] Welcome New Elections Leader - Time to organize
by Göran Krampe 03 Feb '08

03 Feb '08

Hi! > I heard from Göran and he said that he was available this afternoon to > read > over our emails. I mentioned that if he couldn't make it we could just > wait > till Monday instead. > > Ron Yesterday didn't go well - so I missed my window - but today I will get an hour at least and intend to read through and then post a proposed ANN-email to the election list. I will then wait until say monday/tuesday before sending it to squeak-dev and the other lists. Fair? regards, Göran

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FW: [Elections] Welcome New Elections Leader - Time to organize
by Ron Teitelbaum 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

-----Original Message----- From: Ron Teitelbaum [mailto:Ron@USMedRec.com] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 6:12 PM To: 'Ken Causey' Subject: RE: [Elections] Welcome New Elections Leader - Time to organize > From: Ken Causey [mailto:ken@kencausey.com] > > I would really just prefer that the community at large be offered the > opportunity and that it be made very clear that this is their primary > opportunity to not only get the opinion of nominees but also to point > out issues of concern to them, really its up to them then to choose or > not choose to take advantage of the opportunity. However, if you also > want to pointedly ask certain individuals for questions that would be OK > also. But only doing that would be a form of bias as well, you are > selecting who to ask. > > Ken Yeah that makes sense. I'm ok with adding the wiki page for asking questions like we had last time, and I can remind people to put their questions there and remind candidates to answer them. I think you are right that individually asking people for questions could be considered loading the deck, depending on who I ask. So we can just leave that out. Ron

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Welcome New Elections Leader - Time to organize
by Ron Teitelbaum 02 Feb '08

02 Feb '08

Hi Göran and the Elections Team, Well I do hope that the resounding silence doesnt put you off any. A big welcome Göran from me as our new leader! And welcome everyone to a new squeak election. We had a very difficult time last year getting anyone to discuss anything about the election. I have to say I did expect more reaction to the change. I suppose it is time to come up with a schedule. Last year we decided to have a nomination period, a campaigning period and then a voting period. We have been asked to extend the voting period of 3 days because some people didn't check their email before voting closed. Also we had a very difficult time getting people to step up and nominate themselves for the board. The period between nominations and voting was almost completely silent except for my attempt to get candidates to answer questions; I would consider that effort to not be worth the time. Some never answered any questions. And very few questions were submitted by the community. So I guess my suggestion would be a longer nomination period and voting period and a shorter campaigning period. But overall it would be nice if we could still wrap it all up in just over a month. What do you think? Ron Teitelbaum Squeak Elections Team Member

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FW: [Newbies] Reminder - Check your Squeak People Email or Sign up tovote
by Ron Teitelbaum 17 Jan '08

17 Jan '08

Daniel, What do you think about extending the voting time to say two weeks? Ron ________________________________________ From: Michael van der Gulik This year, could we please have longer than a week between the announcement of the start of voting and the closing of the ballet boxes? Gulik.

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Reminder - Check your Squeak People Email or Sign up to vote
by Ron Teitelbaum 16 Jan '08

16 Jan '08

Hi all, I thought I'd send out a reminder about the Squeak Foundation Board Elections. If you would like to vote in the upcoming Squeak Foundation Elections, you should check your email address on Squeak People. http://people.squeakfoundation.org/ . Please make sure you have access to your squeak people account, check that you included your name and that the supplied email is correct. If you need help accessing your account please let me know. You will need access to the email supplied to receive a ballot. If you have not signed up for a squeak people account and you would like to vote in the election please sign up and then encourage people you know to certify you. Only Squeak People members that have a certification of Apprentice or higher have supplied a real name and a valid email will receive a ballot to vote in the election. This is only a reminder about Squeak People. We have not set the voting schedule. Please stay informed, get involved in the upcoming election and remember to please vote. Also I'd like to express our thanks to Ken Causey for helping us get the tools we needed to better run the election this year. Thanks Ken! Happy Squeaking, Ron Teitelbaum Squeak Elections Team Member

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Preparation for 2008 Foundation Elections
by Ken Causey 11 Dec '07

11 Dec '07

I know, it's still 2007, nonetheless it is my intention to improve for the next election the form and generation of the voter eligibility lists and I think it is time to at least start discussing this. I'm not sure what information the election team needs or what form in which it needs to come to you. I would appreciate it if you could consider this and add this information to the report at http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=6363 as soon as possible. Thanks, Ken

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Squeak Elections Summary
by Ron Teitelbaum 10 Mar '07

10 Mar '07

All, Here's a quick summary of what happened in our election Server error 1 user reported Wrong Email in Squeak People 5 users New email added ballots resent Ineligible voters requesting ballot 2 users Couldn't find Email 3 users 2 resent (1 found by user) Bounces 12 emails bounced Issues: 0-10 emails were not on squeakPeople export Numbers on front page are wrong Should be: Observer 96 Apprentice 245 Journeyer 118 Master 34 Total 493 I'd say it went pretty well, Ron Teitelbaum Squeak Elections Team Member

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FW: [Elections] Squeak Elections Summary
by Ron Teitelbaum 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

> From: Ken Causey > Is there no mechanism for sending them the same exact email again with > the same exact ID number? If so then it doesn't matter how many copies > they get, they only get one vote per ID. If not, that's very > unfortunate, lost emails are a nearly unavoidable situation, > particularly as the size of the voter pool increases which I both expect > and look forward to. > There is a mechanism to send the same email again. I think the issue that Daniel is raising is that if a user had a bad email, they can submit a new email to us and have us send a second ballot. I believe that the system does check that the same user from the same computer does not vote twice, but I didn't check to see if that worked. The number of people that had a bad email was pretty small, and after I received an email from the administrator I was able to see that each one that we sent out had a corresponding bounce. It would be much easier if the system automatically reported bounces, but it does not. I think Daniel's solution to send out emails before the ballot, and to encourage people to sign in and check their email would be a good idea, but it should be possible to recover lost passwords from squeak people. Ron

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Election Run Off
by Ron Teitelbaum 08 Mar '07

08 Mar '07

All, Looking closer at the results of the election it appears that if we had only 6 positions we would have been left with a tie. Do you think that if we are using concordant next year that we should use Runoff instead. In this case it would have picked a winner for us, instead of leaving us with a tie. http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?num_winners=6 <http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?num_winners=6& id=E_be84b060864afc59&algorithm=runoff> &id=E_be84b060864afc59&algorithm=runoff Just a thought, Ron

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