[OSGeo-Conf] Voting officer needed for FOSS4G 2018 selection

[Steven Feldman]

First off a big thank you to Thomas for taking on the roll of CRO. I am very grateful.

We have always used a CRO and email in the past, I have no hesitation in supporting that approach if it is Thomas’s preference. If Thomas wishes to trial a web voting system I am fine with that too. 

The first vote is 17th/18th October - 16 voters (if all the committee votes) to select one Letter of Intent
Second vote is 9th/12th December - 16 voters (if all the committee votes) to select one Proposal with second choice votes to be used in the event of a tie in the first round

I will leave it to Thomas to decide how to administer the voting

Thanks
______
Steven


> On 28 Sep 2016, at 08:21, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Cameron,
> I believe the integrity of the vote is guaranteed by the "secret"
> token, as each voter can check his vote was accounted for correctly.
> This manual process does not however guarantee anonymity as the CRO
> has access to each voter's choice.
> My experience being cro with limesurvey for osgeo-fr was rather
> negative as I had to spend much more time dealing with the survey
> itself than I would have to manually deal with the process (and IIRC
> at the time anonymity was not guaranteed as the survey admin could
> correlate votes with voters through the voting token).
> Best regards,
> Thomas
> 
> On 28 September 2016 at 08:56, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>> 
>> I suspect that Lime Survey provides the ability to guarantee the that the
>> voting process hasn't been tampered with - ensuring that we can see who has
>> voted, the results of the vote, but not how each person voted. (Jorge, can
>> you please confirm this is the case).
>> 
>> Such a voting system is preferable to having a person acting as a CRO, where
>> the integrity of the CRO might be questioned. (Thomas, this is more of a
>> protection of the CRO, rather than a question of the CRO's integrity).
>> 
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>> 
>> On 28/09/2016 7:51 AM, thomas bonfort wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Jorge,
>> Thanks for the offer.
>> Given the number of voters from my point of view it seems easier to handle
>> this manually than to setup and track a limesurvey. I'm fine to back off
>> with my offer if the limesurvey proposal is preferred.
>> Best regards,
>> Thomas
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 27, 2016 11:35 PM, "Jorge Sanz" <jsanz at osgeo.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Thomas,
>>> 
>>> At this very moment I'm happily working to set up the Board of
>>> Directors voting on the LimeSurvey instance Geo-Spatial community set
>>> up for OSGeo.
>>> 
>>> It's easy to use (and I can assist you) to give to the Conf Committee
>>> a place to do the voting with reminders, tokens and everything, if you
>>> think it's worth.
>>> 
>>> Best regards
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 27 September 2016 at 22:46, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I can volunteer to be cro for the votes. I will be  more or less offline
>>>> from Oct.24 to Nov.21 but that does not seem to interfere with the 2
>>>> voting
>>>> periods.
>>>> With regards to accountancy, I propose that each voting member include a
>>>> token known only to himself that will be published alongside the voting
>>>> result, thus providing a way to be sure his/her vote was accounted for
>>>> correctly.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Thomas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 27, 2016 9:18 PM, "Steven Feldman" <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> 
>>>>> We need someone who is not a member of the conference committee to act
>>>>> as
>>>>> Voting Officer for the 2 stages of voting to select the host for FOSS4G
>>>>> 2018. Full details of dates and voting procedure at
>>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2018_Bid_Process
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any offers?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Steven
>>>>> 
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