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On 12/08/2008 12:23 AM, David Recordon:
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<pre wrap="">It would be fairly trivial to provide a list of eligible members to
vote, though I'm unsure about the privacy implications and if the
Foundation got permission to publicly list members. Seems like this
is something we should add to your profile "List me as a member of the
Foundation" and then use this to build out a page of both individual
and corporate members.
--David
On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Scott Kveton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Right. These questions are still not answered:
1. Is there a list of OpenID-s who are eligible to vote.
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<pre wrap="">The membership committee would be best to answer that. David?
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<pre wrap="">2. Is the election open or closed.
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<pre wrap="">I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Can you elaborate on what
you mean by 'open' or 'closed'?
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<pre wrap="">3. Where are the 'votes' kept, who counts them.
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<pre wrap="">The votes are kept in the election software that was written
specifically for this purpose. I'm in the midst of getting public SVN
access available for folks but we're going to need to sanitize some of
the configuration options out (like login information to PayPal,
Blinksale, etc).
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<pre wrap="">Instead of a private software development effort, why not use Jyte
for the
open election process? Here's why:
1. Everybody with an OpenID (which seems to be the form and pre-
requisite
for foundation membership anyway) can nominate themselves or
somebody else.
(claims such as <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://martin.paljak.pri.eeforOpenIDboard">"http://martin.paljak.pri.ee for OpenID board"</a>).
This way
anyone could nominate a participant (a feature not available
currently)
2. Everybody with an OpenID could cast a "vote" and share their
comments.
3. On the election day, all casted votes on these claims are
exported,
filtered by the (openly available) list of people eligible to vote
(foundation members) and counted.
4. Transparency is perfect, everybody could review and verify the
outcome of
the election.
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<pre wrap="">There are several reasons for not using Jyte for something like this.
1. I don't believe Jyte will let us do this kind of voting; its thumbs
up or down. I suppose we could make N claims where each claim is a
nomination for one individual but then what do thumbs down votes
represent, etc?
2. We have already built software that does what we need it to do.
3. There is research that suggests having real time data on the status
of an on-going election will actually affect the outcome of the
election. I don't know if that's good or bad but its something to
consider. I imagine this has something to do with what you refer to
above around 'open' v. 'closed' elections.
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<pre wrap="">I would understand if the foundation process would be more formal,
where all
members would need to have been accepted by (board) meetings and a
requirement to have a paper trail of those decisions etc. But
currently this
seems to be a very OpenID/$25 based process where it could really
remain
'lightweight and web based'.
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<pre wrap="">I think we're accomplishing the above assuming we can get good answers
to the questions you've posed (which I think we're well on our way to
doing).
- Scott
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