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

[Huidae Cho]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 12:10 PM Chief Return Officer (CRO) - GRASS GIS
election 2020 <variablestarlight at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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)
>
>
> Hernán,

I'm not familiar with RCV either, but does it mean we only count the first
preference, like one voter chooses only one candidate or non-first
preferences don't matter at all (then why more than one preference per
voter)? I'd like to learn more about RCV for multiple selections.

Best,
Huidae

> /H.
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> *From: *grass-psc <grass-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>
> <grass-psc-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Chief Return Officer
> (CRO) - GRASS GIS election 2020 <variablestarlight at gmail.com>
> <variablestarlight at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 7:10 AM
> *To: *GRASS-PSC <grass-psc at lists.osgeo.org> <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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Huidae Cho, Ph.D., GISP, /hidɛ t͡ɕo/, 조희대, 曺喜大
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