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

[Hernán De Angelis]

Den tors 28 jan. 2021 18:23Huidae Cho <grass4u at gmail.com> skrev:

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

I have no idea either. Just noted that I got it as a suggestion.

I am actually fairly satisfied with the method we run this time, 'choose
your 9 member PSC'.

H.



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>> ______________________________
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>> C. Michael Barton
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Director, Network for Computational Modeling in Social & Ecological
>> Sciences
>> Associate Director, School of Complex Adaptive Systems
>> Professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> Tempe, AZ  85287-2402
>> USA
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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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