[OpenID board] International Liaison board vote
David Recordon
david at sixapart.com
Fri Jan 16 17:47:33 UTC 2009
Right now the board election tool that members use does not show a
running tally which is correct behavior. The tool for the board to
vote does show a running tally and who voted for what which I also
think is correct behavior. This supports what DeWitt said about
matching phone votes.
--David
On Jan 16, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Brian Kissel wrote:
> For the board election tool, the specification was that intermediate
> results weren’t going to be displayed so as not to influence the
> outcome. Mike, I think you drove that criteria, correct? I do
> think that not showing the running tally helps to limit the risk of
> “group think” and would advocate keeping it that way, but look
> forward to feedback from others.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Brian
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> From: DeWitt Clinton [mailto:dewitt at google.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:25 AM
> To: Brian Kissel
> Cc: board at openid.net
> Subject: Re: International Liaison board vote
>
> [Moving to the board public list.]
>
> Thanks, Brian. That worked rather well. I really appreciate the
> online ballots.
>
> Each BoD member's voting record will be made public after the ballot
> closes, correct? I know our meeting minutes sometimes, but not
> always, record who voted which way in the case of non-unanimous
> decisions. The inconsistency is likely just because we haven't
> discussed a policy here, not any intentional effort to keep things
> secret. Personally I'd rather we just established the policy to
> always make the BoD voting records public, but I'd be interested to
> hear arguments for or against.
>
> I also noticed that, for this ballot, the running record is being
> hidden from the electorate. For a BoD vote we can probably make the
> ongoing record visible to the eligible voters; just like it would be
> if we voted in-person. We should strive to be consistent between
> the online and offline processes so there is no question about one
> being more or less legitimate.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -DeWitt
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Brian Kissel <bkissel at janrain.com>
> wrote:
> Hello All,
>
>
> For some reason the email notification for the polling system is
> still not working. Please go to https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls
> and select the International Liaison to OIDF board Executive
> Committee poll.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Brian
>
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