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

Steven Feldman shfeldman at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 04:48:17 PDT 2016 

Thanks

Regards
Steven


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> On 29 Sep 2016, at 10:27, thomas bonfort <thomas.bonfort at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ack. I will go for the email process.
> I will keep monitoring this list and will send out individual emails
> with voting instructions to the 16 committee members for both voting
> periods.
> Best regards,
> Thomas
> 
> On 28 September 2016 at 13:11, Cameron Shorter
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Jorge Sanz
>>>>>> http://www.osgeo.org
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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