Re: Anonymous Voting - my action item..

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey,

Forgot to add a link to the current proposal for the mechanism - I'll
update that in the next draft.

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/membership-committee/2004-March/msg00116.html

Glynn

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 01:24 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> So I wrote up something, but it's not great, and kinda unsure how best
> to phrase things.
>
> Comments?
>
> Glynn
>
> ==========================
> Back in September 2003, the board discussed a possible move towards an anonymous
> voting scheme for the annual GNOME Foundation board of directors elections and
> brought it to the members on foundation-list gnome org  You can read this thread
> here -
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>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2003-September/msg00008.html
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> After much discussion, it was agreed that there was significant objection to this
> so that we should hold a referendum to decide whether future elections should use
> an anonymous voting mechanism.
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> Anonymous voting will allow members to vote for the board of directors in privacy.
> While the breakdown of results will be open, the individual who voted for a given
> list of people will not be named. Having had the experience of sitting on the
> board for the past 2 years, it's crucial to have the right people for the right
> job and quite often that choice is hard to make. Many people have felt pressured
> to vote for colleagues or friends and not because they made a suitable GNOME
> Foundation member.
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> When the vote happens on XXX, the current board recommends the GNOME Foundation
> members to vote to introduce anonymous voting. The current membership committee
> are in the process of definining the anonymous voting mechanism, and require the
> help of a few python developers. If you would like to help out, please email
> membership-committee gnome org 
>
>
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