[OSGeo-Discuss] Voting process (Re: OSGeo Membership and/or upcoming elections)

[Jorge Sanz]

umm that's interesting because that soft supports exactly the type of vote
we do

http://manual.limesurvey.org/Question_type_-_Multiple_numerical_input

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Jorge Sanz
@xurxosanz
http://jorgesanz.net

Sent from my phone, Sorry for my brevity, top posting, etc.
El 17/05/2014 02:33, "Alex Mandel" <tech_dev at wildintellect.com> escribió:

> On 05/16/2014 03:41 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote:
> > 2014-05-16 17:14 GMT+02:00 Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>:
> >
> >> On 2014-05-16, 12:06 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> >>>
> >>> - maybe this is the most interesting, the Open Source Initiative used
> >>> "evote" (https://github.com/mdipierro/evote), will paste the full
> email
> >>> from OSI:
> >>>
> >>> ****
> >>> At the Open Source Initiative, we just used E-Vote to conduct a member
> >>> election, and I was pretty happy with the process (I was the admin):
> >>>
> >>>   https://elections.opensource.org/
> >>>
> >>> We contracted with E-Vote's author, Massimo DiPierro, to set it up for
> >>> us, which he did a fine job of.  I expect we'll continue to use it.
> >>>
> >>> It does use people's email addresses to send them their ballots, but
> the
> >>> ballots themselves are anonymous.  (Technically, the election admin
> >>> could use database access to figure out who did what, I suppose, but
> >>> that's the only point of trust; the election itself can be verified by
> >>> others without anyone's identities or votes being revealed.)
> >>> ****
> >>>
> >> More on the evote project (I wonder if we should contact Massimo), the
> >> 'features' listed on the OSI site:
> >>
> >> - The system is open source and anybody can check the source code. The
> >> code is small and written in the Python language. This makes it easy for
> >> professionals in the field to check it.
> >>
> >> - The system can run as a service and one installation can run mutiple
> >> elections. Anybody can login into the system, create a new election,
> >> register voters and managers, and customize the ballot using an easy to
> >> use WYSIWYG interface.
> >>
> >> - The system communicates with voters and managers by email.
> >>
> >> - Voters do not need to login into the system to vote. They only need to
> >> click on the link in the notification email, fill a web form and submit.
> >>
> >> - Each voter can only vote once per election.
> >>
> >> - Results are computed automatically at closing of the election and
> >> published.
> >>
> >> - Voting is completely anonymous. Even a hacker with a complete database
> >> dump of the system would not be able to link voters to ballots.
> >>
> >> - Each voter can check at any time that his vote has been properly
> >> recorded and not alatered.
> >>
> >> - Each voter can independenty and at any time perform an election
> recount.
> >>
> >> - Upon voting, each voter receives an email recipt containing a copy of
> >> their filled and anonymized ballot.
> >>
> >> - Managers are notified by email when a new vote is cast and receive a
> >> copy of the anonimized ballot.
> >>
> >> - All ballots, anonymized and digitally signed, are published, along
> >> with instruciton to verify the digital signature.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -jeff
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Hi Jeff, all
> >
> > After spending some time and several trials with opensource.org system I
> > haven't been able to perform a successful vote test. We need to create as
> > many questions as votes and even it seems to work, afterwards it doesn't
> > collect the votes correctly. It's a pity because I like the system,
> > apparently is meant for asking just one question of the three types
> offered
> > (ranking, select or multiselect). With more time I would try to solve the
> > issue I came across. It was funny to see Karl Fogel has opened several
> > tickets on this project (he's the author of the "Producing Open Source
> > Software" classic book).
> >
> > On the other hand, and that's important, I think we need to know who is
> > voting to identify which charter members are not active on their only
> > required activity for the foundation so far. That system focuses
> seriously
> > on anonymity and for this matter at least the CRO needs to know who is
> > voting and who is not.
> >
> >
> > On the other hand I've done some tests with opina and I think it fits all
> > our requirements.
> >
> > 1) Import a CSV of contacts into the system
> http://i.imgur.com/WWh24mI.png
> > 2) Customize the invitation mail http://i.imgur.com/o2OPHfu.png
> > 3) Select a private survey sending a different password to any member
> > http://i.imgur.com/hM5EG6D.png
> > 4) Receive an email http://i.imgur.com/K2OdjQF.png
> > 5) Access the survey (you have the choice to save and continue later)
> > http://i.imgur.com/nIcgmKs.png
> > 6) Track who voted, see results and export to CSV and SPSS formats
> > http://i.imgur.com/BlHOvZe.png
> >
> > All that can be used as a service for free, there is no pricing model,
> and
> > if we are going to use it a lot we can think afterwards on installing it
> at
> > our server (I'm wondering if we can use this type of survey soft to ask
> > ideas and feedback to our members, but that's another story).
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> >
>
> If we really want to do it ourselves, LimeSurvey is quite robust.
> http://www.limesurvey.org/en/
>
> Not hard to install mysql/php etc...
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
>
>
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