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    <p>Jachym,</p>
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        <div>If I understand it correctly: Having 50% quota for the next
          round and having each committee member as many votes, as there
          are candidates (so you could put one vote to each proposal)
          would do the job?</div>
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    correct. Every CC member has one vote per LoI. Your choice is "yes"
    or "no" (or thumb up or down or however you call it ;-)).<br>
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    I already called for a vote on this as well (se my mail from
    yesterday)<br>
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    Till<br>
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        <div>J</div>
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        <div dir="ltr">st 6. 9. 2017 v 8:28 odesílatel Till Adams <<a
            href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" moz-do-not-send="true">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>>
          napsal:<br>
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          .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Eli,<br>
          <br>
          that is my experience, call for a vote, ad discussion goes on.
          I think<br>
          we are all more or less of the same opinion, that voting
          results should<br>
          *not* be published. I also think, that happened accidentally
          last time.<br>
          So no worries here.<br>
          <br>
          Till<br>
          <br>
          <br>
          Am 05.09.2017 um 17:41 schrieb Eli Adam:<br>
          > What is that status of this motion, "I would propose
          *not* to publish<br>
          > the number of votes on LoI's as we did (presumably
          accidentally) for<br>
          > the 2018 RfP"?  Failed? Passed? Withdrawn?<br>
          ><br>
          > In my mind we are really in the discussion phase and
          should not yet be<br>
          > voting.  Although, honestly, this email list gets the
          most discussion<br>
          > participation once a vote is called, so maybe calling
          votes is the<br>
          > only way to get wide participation in discussion.<br>
          ><br>
          ><br>
          > Best regards, Eli<br>
          ><br>
          > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 11:33 PM, Till Adams <<a
            href="mailto:till.adams@fossgis.de" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">till.adams@fossgis.de</a>> wrote:<br>
          >> Peter,<br>
          >><br>
          >> thanks for that input - I also like the idea.<br>
          >><br>
          >> Personnally I als prefer the situation, that there is
          a competition.<br>
          >><br>
          >> I call up a vote for this new, stage 1 voting system
          ;-)<br>
          >><br>
          >> Till<br>
          >><br>
          >><br>
          >><br>
          >><br>
          >> Am 04.09.2017 um 20:25 schrieb Peter Batty:<br>
          >><br>
          >> I'm glad Darrell has raised this as I have felt a bit
          uncomfortable with the<br>
          >> way that the first round of voting works. The general
          aim with introducing<br>
          >> the two stage selection process was to avoid a team
          having to put in<br>
          >> extensive work on a detailed proposal if they didn't
          have a realistic chance<br>
          >> of being accepted. However, I think we also want to
          ensure reasonable<br>
          >> competition to help maintain the high standards that
          we have for FOSS4G<br>
          >> events, so unless there was some unusual situation I
          would generally hope to<br>
          >> have at least two detailed proposals to evaluate.<br>
          >><br>
          >> The current single vote in the first round I find
          quite limiting. If I think<br>
          >> that two out of three initial proposals are strong
          and I would like to see a<br>
          >> more detailed version of both to evaluate, but that a
          third one is weak and<br>
          >> not a realistic option, I have no way to express that
          with one vote. On a<br>
          >> couple of occasions I have found myself voting
          tactically in the first<br>
          >> round, for what is my second choice based on initial
          information, as I would<br>
          >> like to try to make sure that we see detailed
          proposals from both of my top<br>
          >> 2 preferences - which is an approach that is not
          satisfactory and may or may<br>
          >> not work!<br>
          >><br>
          >> So I like Darrell's suggestion that for the first
          round, each committee<br>
          >> member should vote yes or no on each initial proposal
          to indicate if they<br>
          >> would like to see a more detailed proposal from that
          team. I think there<br>
          >> would be various ways we could make the cut after
          that vote. It could be all<br>
          >> teams greater than 50% as Darrell suggested. We could
          also specify a maximum<br>
          >> number, say at most 3 teams based on who got the most
          votes. Or we could<br>
          >> just go for the top 2 or 3 or whatever based on total
          votes without a<br>
          >> specific threshold.<br>
          >><br>
          >> Cheers,<br>
          >>     Peter.<br>
          >><br>
          >> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:20 AM, Darrell Fuhriman
          <<a href="mailto:darrell@garnix.org" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">darrell@garnix.org</a>><br>
          >> wrote:<br>
          >>> An alternative voting option is everyone gives an
          up or down vote on each<br>
          >>> proposal. Every proposal getting >50% (or
          whatever threshold) up votes<br>
          >>> proceeds to the next round.<br>
          >>><br>
          >>> d.<br>
          >>><br>
          >>><br>
          >>><br>
          >>>> On Sep 4, 2017, at 08:24, Venkatesh Raghavan
          <<a href="mailto:venka.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">venka.osgeo@gmail.com</a>><br>
          >>>> wrote:<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>>> On 9/5/2017 12:01 AM, Till Adams wrote:<br>
          >>>>> I  think publishing the vote results and
          the min. number of votes to<br>
          >>>>> pass the first threshold are two pair of
          shoes.<br>
          >>>> I agree. On a lighter vein, it should be one
          pair of shoes.<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>>> I like the idea of a min. of 3 votes, but
          I prefer not to publish the<br>
          >>>>> results.<br>
          >>>>><br>
          >>>>> Should we vote on the min. number of
          votes as well?<br>
          >>>> I do not feel that vote on min. number of
          votes is necessary.<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>> Best<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>> Venka<br>
          >>>><br>
          >>>>> Till<br>
          >>>>><br>
          >>>>><br>
          >>>>><br>
          >>>>><br>
          >>>>>> Am 04.09.2017 um 16:39 schrieb
          stevenfeldman:<br>
          >>>>>> Sanghee said "Me too. +1 for not
          disclosing the vote numbers at any<br>
          >>>>>> stage. "<br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>> My suggestion to publish LoI votes
          was based on the very low threshold<br>
          >>>>>> for<br>
          >>>>>> inclusion in the next stage. If an
          LoI only needs 2 votes to go on to<br>
          >>>>>> the<br>
          >>>>>> next stage we may be putting a team
          to a lot of work in preparing a<br>
          >>>>>> full<br>
          >>>>>> proposal when they have little chance
          of being successful, hence my<br>
          >>>>>> suggestion.<br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>> We could also address this by
          requiring an LoI to receive at least 20%<br>
          >>>>>> of<br>
          >>>>>> the votes cast by the committee at
          the first stage.<br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>> Re the final vote on proposals, I
          think it is helpful to those who<br>
          >>>>>> have not<br>
          >>>>>> succeeded to understand how the
          voting worked.<br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>> In general we as a community prefer
          transparency, I am surprised that<br>
          >>>>>> on<br>
          >>>>>> this important topic some would
          prefer the results of the conference<br>
          >>>>>> committee votes to remain a secret. I
          vote against this suggestion<br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>> Steven<br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>><br>
          >>>>>> --<br>
          >>>>>> Sent from:<br>
          >>>>>> <a
href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Conference-Committee-f3721662.html"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/OSGeo-Conference-Committee-f3721662.html</a><br>
          >>>>>>
          _______________________________________________<br>
          >>>>>> Conference_dev mailing list<br>
          >>>>>> <a
            href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          >>>>>> <a
            href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br>
          >>>>>
          _______________________________________________<br>
          >>>>> Conference_dev mailing list<br>
          >>>>> <a
            href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          >>>>> <a
            href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br>
          >>>>><br>
          >>>>
          _______________________________________________<br>
          >>>> Conference_dev mailing list<br>
          >>>> <a
            href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank"
            moz-do-not-send="true">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          >>>> <a
            href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br>
          >>> _______________________________________________<br>
          >>> Conference_dev mailing list<br>
          >>> <a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          >>> <a
            href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br>
          >><br>
          >><br>
          >><br>
          >> _______________________________________________<br>
          >> Conference_dev mailing list<br>
          >> <a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          >> <a
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            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br>
          >><br>
          >><br>
          >><br>
          >> _______________________________________________<br>
          >> Conference_dev mailing list<br>
          >> <a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org"
            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
          >> <a
            href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a><br>
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