Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

[Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo<diegoe gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 10:58 +0200, Dave Neary wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Stormy Peters wrote:
> > > I too think the election committee should just decide.
> > >
> > > (From board discussions, I'm pretty confident they wanted to do it
> > > however Maemo does it, but at this point I think the election committee
> > > should decide.)
> >
> > I'd replace "decide" with "clarify" here - it's clear there was an
> > intention, and now we're in something of a niche situation, where we
> > just need a clarification from the committee what method they intended
> > to use - then we just count with that.
>
> I disagree, afaik we just directly re-used the code received from
> maemo.org through you (iirc). Which in your March elections used this
> same system:
>  http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-community/2009-March/002139.html
>
> Indeed you had a discussion after the results, although I haven't
> checked if you later did some change regarding the results.
>
> IMVHO what happened was that we just thought "preferential voting" and
> not went into the details, at the Board level and highly likely at the
> MC level. I wouldn't say there was specific blame or ill intention in
> any of the people involved (you, mc, board).

For what it is worth, I think I assumed STV, but I also think that
you're right that it was never formally discussed at board level, and
certainly was not communicated to the membership committee. This is
purely my fault, since I was the one pushing for it at the board
level. :(

Luis

P.S. Sorry I've been AWOL, but bar exam study has been very
distracting, and I did not realize until today that this thread was
significant beyond the first email. For what it is worth, from a quick
skim of the thread, I think I mostly just agree with Dave N.'s
positions.