[GRASS-PSC] [GRASS GIS Elections 2020] Brief summary and reflections for the next election

[Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020]

On 2021-01-28 17:44, Michael Barton wrote:
>
> I agree with Huidae. Pretty much simultaneously with the GRASS PSC 
> elections, CoMSES.Net held executive board election. We also ran into 
> glitches with this remote voting and eventually had to rerun the 
> election. So the GRASS one went very well. Thanks. Having a way to 
> work out a list of eligible voters is important but I’m sure that 
> GRASS expertise can solve it. Perhaps we can then propose this to US 
> states who are wrestling with the same question and often proposing 
> really bad solutions 😉
>
> Michael
>
I got a suggestion, by Rich Shepard, about "ranked choice voting 
(RCV?)". I have no experience with it but possibly something the PSC may 
want to have a look at.

https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)


/H.


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> *From: *grass-psc <grass-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of 
> Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 
> <variablestarlight at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 7:10 AM
> *To: *GRASS-PSC <grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [GRASS-PSC] [GRASS GIS Elections 2020] Brief summary 
> and reflections for the next election
>
> On 2021-01-28 15:04, Huidae Cho wrote:
> > Hernán and all,
> >
> > First of all, many thanks to Hernán for organizing the election. I
> > think it was very smooth.
>
> Thank you, Huidae.
>
>
> > I believe the most challenging and important task in any election is
> > to prepare a tidy voters registry. At the moment, we have multiple
> > lists of contributors in different repositories. It would be much
> > easier to avoid human errors if we combined them into a single list,
> > maybe in the core or web repository. Also, for identifying
> > individuals, we can create a unique ID for each contributor based on
> > their name (e.g., first initial + middle initial + last name) when
> > they first join the community to avoid using email addresses (or even
> > github IDs for a potential migration to another platform in the
> > future), which can change any time. Last, as for sending an email to
> > someone who has been away from the community for a while, we could
> > utilize mailing archives to check if they have been active in the
> > community in the past couple of years. We can discuss further in the
> > first meeting.
> >
> +1 for unique IDs, wheter related to GitHub or not, they are very useful.
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