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<p>Hi Steven,</p>
<p>Indeed, and I would then suggest taking all of that hard earned
experience, knowledge, priorities, and weightings and putting them
inside an objective, measurable framework where it is less
susceptible to biases, both conscious and not.</p>
<p>This would produce a much more open process, more in line with
the O in OSGeo and the "open philosophy" part of the OSGeo Mission
Statement. It also means experience and lessons learnt aren't lost
when people leave the voting pool as with Cameron's input for
instance.<br>
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<p>Depending on the scoring metrics used, it would also allow for a
more direct comparison between proposals. And as a bonus, the
scoring/metrics being open means it's open to comment and feedback
from everyone, meaning the process is now more "participatory
community driven development" (again, straight from the
one-sentence Mission Statement).<br>
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<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Jonathan<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-06-06 19:18, Steven Feldman
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<div class="">Each member of the committee will bring their own
priorities and experiences to the voting process. </div>
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<div class="">So for you the environmental considerations might be
paramount while for someone else delivering a highly affordable
delegate price may be their priority or another might be
concerned about overall financial risk to OSGeo and someone else
might be very focussed on diversity. We each have a different
set of criteria and we also apply different levels of importance
to those criteria.</div>
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<div class="">The current system allows each voter to apply their
own criteria and weightings and to select the proposal that they
think best, the majority vote then wins. I know when I vote I
usually have a good feeling for one of the proposals based on a
mix of factors, you could say that was unconscious bias, I would
say it was a combination of instinct and experience</div>
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<div class="">On 6 Jun 2019, at 17:55, Jonathan Moules <<a
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Following the protracted discussion about voters in the
parallel thread it occurs to me that it's begging the
question that voting is good.<br class="">
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Why exactly do we have voting for this? Surely the
better and (far) less subjective option is to an
objective scoring system by which to measure the quality
of the submissions? There's still element of
subjectivity of course ("is this answer a 6/10 or a
7/10?"), but it's largely objective, measurable, and
transparent.<br class="">
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As far as I can tell from the transparency in the
current voting (i.e., none) and reading the proposals
(half of which usually reads like a tourist brochure),
votes could easily currently be getting cast via "I want
to go on holiday there next year". And while I'm not
suggesting that's actually happening intentionally, it's
almost certainly going to be a subconscious bias in the
current process.<br class="">
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On 2019-06-05 08:07, Till Adams wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">Dear CC!<br class="">
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I had some minutes and started an *early* prepare of
the call for 2021.<br class="">
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I added this WIKI page here:<br class="">
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Please check carefully whether the dates fit for you
and of course for<br class="">
other errors.<br class="">
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I will prepapre the needed documents in the next days
and send them to you.<br class="">
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Have a great day!<br class="">
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Till<br class="">
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