[OpenID] What election?

[Chris Messina]

For the record, the election site looks, and seems to work, really well.
So props for that -- it could use a few subtle tweaks to make things more
readable, but for an election site, I'm pretty impressed (could we get that
design ported to the homepage and the wiki?).

Chris

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones at microsoft.com>wrote:

> The current version of the election procedures is the one posted to the
> board list on November 21st, which I've attached a PDF version of here.
>  (I'll also post it to the http://openid.net/board/members/ directory once
> a local permission issue has been resolved.)
>
> Regarding revisiting your seconds, you can go back and second additional
> people.  In fact, given that several additional people have been nominated
> recently, I'd encourage everyone to go back to
> https://openid.net/foundation/members/elections/1 and decide if you'd like
> to second any of the additional candidates.
>
>                                -- Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Scott Kveton
> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 12:54 PM
> To: Martin Paljak
> Cc: general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] What election?
>
> > Statement, which brings me to another question: are the elections open
> > or closed? Is there a list of all the people (or OpenID-s in that
> > matter) who can vote? Is it OK if I use some other OpenID to pay
> > another 25$ and vote for the guys I like one more time? Is the
> > "election software" available somewhere for review?  Is the election
> > procedure described somewhere?  Can I somehow edit my seconds after
> > I've saved them before the deadline?
>
> Some of your questions are answered here:
>
>
> http://openid.net/2008/12/03/openid-foundation-board-of-director-nominations-open/
>
> I don't believe there is a public list of all of the members' OpenIDs.
>
> Technically you could spend $25/vote and tie them all to different
> OpenIDs.  For obvious reasons, we would like to discourage this as the
> goal is to have one vote per actual "real" member.
>
> The election software is not currently available for review.  I don't
> know why it can't be made available though.
>
> I've just posted the election procedures here:
>
> http://openid.net/board/members/oidf-election-procedures-20081120.pdf
>
> Mike Jones: can you confirm that is the latest draft?  Its the one I
> retrieved off of the board mailing list.
>
> You cannot currently edit your seconds after you make them so choose
> wisely the first time ... :-)  This is a great feature to add to the
> election software.
>
> Also, it was brought to my attention that there is no public list of
> the current nominees.  This seems like a reasonable request to me and
> I'll ask the developers of the election software to add that in.
>
> - Scott
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