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

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Thomas,

Yes, as Steven says, thanks for taking on the CRO role, and I'm fine 
with your proposed process.

Cheers, Cameron


On 28/09/2016 6:45 PM, Steven Feldman wrote:
> 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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