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Just a FYI: The ASF has just created the Apache Steve project, which is the open-sourcing of all of our STV and voter toolkit… Expect SVN/wiki/website/etc to be up in a week or so...  

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Jim Jagielski
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On Friday, July 27, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:

> Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org (mailto:stefano at openstack.org)> wrote:
> > > Speaking of that process, it's broken and needs to be fixed ASAP, since
> > > we'll have the PTL elections soon. The current nomination process,
> > > especially, is broken: it requires way too much manual processing and
> > > more than manipulation, it allows mistakes (like in the past election,
> > > where I forgot to include one candidate to the list).
> > >  
> > > This is how we ran it last time:
> > > http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/ElectionsSpring2012
> > >  
> > > Want to help fix it?
> >  
> > Yes!
>  
> This probably warrants a thread of its own, but here are the current
> requirements for the upcoming PTL/TC election, per the Technical
> Committee charter:
>  
> A Condorcet or a STV system should be used.
>  
> Sep 5: Deadline for candidacy to Core PTL positions
> Sep 7-13: PTL election
> Sep 19: Deadline for candidacy to TC directly-elected seats (3)
> Sep 21-27: TC direct seats election
>  
> Note 1: elections are run staggered so that people who fail to get PTL
> seats can decide to run for directly-elected seats (or not)
>  
> Note 2: the current charter proposes to remove the ability to "be
> nominated": candidates just announce their candidacy. That way we don't
> have to track whether each nominated candidate actually accepted to run
> or not, and we can ask that all required information (email, bio,
> affiliation, platform...) is provided by the candidate before the
> election starts. Given that candidates could self-nominate in the past
> and needed to confirm their participation anyway, that sounds like a
> good way to reduce unnecessary complexity.
>  
> Note 3: I investigated two platforms we can use for the vote:
> * http://www.opavote.org/
> * http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/civs/
> OPAvote has a few benefits (supports both Condorcet and STV, solves
> ex-aequo cases), but requires pure ranking (you can't select multiple
> candidates at the same rank).
>  
> Being already elected to the TC (and not planning to apply for a PTL
> position), I'm available to serve as one of the election officials if
> need be.
>  
> --  
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
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