[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 07/25/2012 04:08 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
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> On 07/24/2012 06:50 PM, Stefano Costa wrote:
>> Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto:
>>
>>> But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy
>>> member competing for the board. At the same time it might be
>>> rude not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce
>>> the chances of (his) the chosen one. Hope the present charter
>>> will react to this.
>> Why not something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method
>> as used by the Debian project?
>>
>> Incidentally, this could be used for other voting purposes, too.
>>
>> Ciao, steko
> Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with
> what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I
> will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that
> we don't wake up late for the next elections again...
>
> Cheers,
> Arnulf
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Hi,

+1 on Stefano's suggestion for this voting algorithm. Common and best 
practices from other strong open source communities are a very valuable 
input.
I also agree with Arnulf that we need to change this for the next election.

Regards,
Angelos

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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos