[OSGeo-Conf] Start 2019 RFP / Call for vote on "publishing LoIvotes"

[Darrell Fuhriman]

An alternative voting option is everyone gives an up or down vote on each proposal. Every proposal getting >50% (or whatever threshold) up votes proceeds to the next round.

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> On Sep 4, 2017, at 08:24, Venkatesh Raghavan <venka.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/5/2017 12:01 AM, Till Adams wrote:
>> I  think publishing the vote results and the min. number of votes to
>> pass the first threshold are two pair of shoes.
> 
> I agree. On a lighter vein, it should be one pair of shoes.
> 
>> 
>> I like the idea of a min. of 3 votes, but I prefer not to publish the
>> results.
>> 
>> Should we vote on the min. number of votes as well?
> 
> I do not feel that vote on min. number of votes is necessary.
> 
> Best
> 
> Venka
> 
>> 
>> Till
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 04.09.2017 um 16:39 schrieb stevenfeldman:
>>> Sanghee said "Me too. +1 for not disclosing the vote numbers at any stage. "
>>> 
>>> My suggestion to publish LoI votes was based on the very low threshold for
>>> inclusion in the next stage. If an LoI only needs 2 votes to go on to the
>>> next stage we may be putting a team to a lot of work in preparing a full
>>> proposal when they have little chance of being successful, hence my
>>> suggestion.
>>> 
>>> We could also address this by requiring an LoI to receive at least 20% of
>>> the votes cast by the committee at the first stage.
>>> 
>>> Re the final vote on proposals, I think it is helpful to those who have not
>>> succeeded to understand how the voting worked.
>>> 
>>> In general we as a community prefer transparency, I am surprised that on
>>> this important topic some would prefer the results of the conference
>>> committee votes to remain a secret. I vote against this suggestion
>>> 
>>> Steven
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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