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[March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

Dave Neary, our hard-working docmaster, has posted the following on his blog:

Quote:

The voting tokens have just been sent out for the Q1 2010 Maemo Community Council elections.

I already have over 100 bounced emails, so if you think that you should have a vote and you have not received an email with a voting token yet, please send me an email or leave a comment, I will look up your Maemo username and send you on the voting token/email combo we have on record so that you can vote.

Voting runs until March 30th – you can find more information about the election and the council in the Maemo wiki.

Please make sure your e-mail address at maemo.org is correct!

And please be sure to VOTE!

Just a note about this voting system:

Your first choice is the most important. Only if your first choice is eliminated will your second choice be considered.

I'll also re-post the Election timeline (from this post), with the finished portions crossed off.

Election timeline

All deadlines are set at 23:59 UTC.

~~February 10: Election announced~~
~~March 2: Deadline for karma for electorate~~
~~March 2: List of potential candidates published~~
~~March 2: Nominations open~~
~~March 16: Nominations close~~
~~March 17: List of candidates announced~~
March 23: Voting opens
March 30: Voting closes
March 31: Results announced

Voting open for Q1 2010 elections

Hi all,

For those who had not noticed yet, voting is now open for the Q1 2010 Maemo Community Council elections.

If you had a maemo.org account created on or before Dec 31 2009 and 10 karma or more at the start of the election process, then you are entitled to vote. Even if you linked your Maemo accounts after Dec 31, but you had created your Talk account before then, you were eligible to vote.

What follows is the instruction email which those of you who qualify to vote should have received yesterday. If you did not, please contact me here or at dneary@m.o, and I will either explain why you didn't get a token, or issue you your token (about 150 tokens bounced).

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Dear <member>

The election of the Maemo Community Council is now open, and you have received this email as you are eligible to vote. The Maemo Community Council consists of 5 members who serve a 6 month term, representing the community to Maemo and helping facilitate community activities. You can learn more about the community council at:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Council

CANDIDATES

The candidates for election are:

Arek Stopczynski (hopbeat)
Randall Arnold (texrat)
Cosimo Kroll (zehjotkah)
Andrew Flegg (Jaffa)
Attila Czipa (Attila77/achipa)
Steven Paolini Yeager (YoDude)
Javier S. Pedro (JaviSPedro)
Andrea Grandi (andy80)
Andrew Black (andrewfblack)
Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles)

A full list of candidates and their reasons for running can be found at:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Community_Coun...for_March_2010

HOW TO VOTE

Voting will run from March 23rd until March 30th 2010, 23:59 UTC.

Your voting credentials are:

URL: http://maemo.org/vote/
E-mail:
Vote token:

After authenticating yourself, you can choose your preferred candidates in order of preference. You will have an opportunity to verify and confirm your vote afterwards.

Once you have confirmed your vote, a unique secret identifier will be given to you which will allow you to verify after the election that your vote was counted correctly.

Once you have voted, you will not be able to vote again.

Thank you for your vote!

Regards,
Dave Neary, on behalf of the Maemo community.

Re: Voting open for Q1 2010 elections

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

First post updated with election timeline.

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

Voting requirements is : 10 karma and 3 month old account.

Maemo.org account not Talk Maemo.org account, which I learned a few days ago.

You may check you status on your profile page at : maemo.org/profile/view/youraccountname/

Re: Voting open for Q1 2010 elections

Oh come on, Dave. You told me to start the thread, and then you started one an hour after mine? Bah. ;)

Re: Voting open for Q1 2010 elections

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 580763)

Oh come on, Dave. You told me to start the thread, and then you started one an hour after mine? Bah. ;)

Sorry dude! After I asked you to create the thread, Niels said "There's nothing on Talk", so I took the initiative (but didn't see your thread first).

Dave.

Re: Voting open for Q1 2010 elections

I would still prefer my last name being written as Csipa :)

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Re: Voting open for Q1 2010 elections

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Originally Posted by attila77 (Post 580841)

I would still prefer my last name being written as Csipa :)

I corrected it on maemo.org/vote - but I've been copying & pasting the candidate list around the place & forgot!

Sorry.

Dave.

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

Even though I'm a rusty old member here and running for re-election, I want to encourage people to vote for newcomer candidates. The council truly needs a healthy mix of new and old to both move forward and avoid repeating mistakes of the past.

Good fortunate to all candidates!

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mandor (Post 580683)

Voting requirements is : 10 karma and 3 month old account.

Maemo.org account not Talk Maemo.org account, which I learned a few days ago.

The rule is "maemo.org account". This includes:

Garage accounts (i.e. you have a page at http://maemo.org/profile/view/nick). These are the "normal" maemo.org accounts.
Bugzilla (i.e. you have a log in on http://bugs.maemo.org/ with your email address and can point to 3 month old activity).
Talk (i.e. here ;-))

If you now have a (Garage) maemo.org account, created it within the last 3 months but have had another maemo.org account which is older; please let Dave know.

...and don't forget to vote!

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

I just want to point out that there's no way you can have karma if you don't have a maemo.org account. I make lots of exceptions for people who can show that they've been doing stuff for more than 3 months (most recently someone who started using Bugzilla in December but only registered for maemo.org in January), but I made it clear at the start of the election process that there was a cut-off date for having a maemo.org account, and it was the beginning of the election process.

Cheers,
Dave.

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

REMINDER: Last chance to vote in Maemo Community Council elections!

A quick reminder that voting closes in the community council elections
tomorrow (March 30) at 23:59 UTC. If you haven't voted yet, then there's
no better time than now!

Thanks for your interest, and for your vote!

Cheers,
Dave.

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

Hallo Fellow Maemo-ian.

Have you already voted ??
I Have ! If you have not voted yet please do so soon, at least before tomorrow (March 30) at 23:59 UTC!
As Dave have said already "there's no better time than now!"

Guys its important to vote, we need a Maemo Council that is carried by the whole Maemo community.
As they have a tough time ahead with the migration to Meego etc
:):):)Thank you:):):)

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

LAST CHANCE: GO VOTE!

(bumping the thread)

These are not official results, the official results will be confirmed by Dave Neary (dneary)

We can see that the amount of votes cast drops very rapidly. We can definitely see that some people just want to use the 10 sliding votes, whereas some have very specific ideas of whom their vote should go to.

Average of votes per voter: 6.173803526
Voters who gave 10 candidates: 144
Voters who gave 9 candidates: 5
Voters who gave 7 candidates: 6
Voters who gave 7 candidates: 11
Voters who gave 6 candidates: 27
Voters who gave 5 candidates: 54
Voters who gave 4 candidates: 41
Voters who gave 3 candidates: 50
Voters who gave 2 candidates: 36
Voters who gave 1 candidates: 23

Congratulations to everyone.

And here are the results as generated per OpenSTV, using the Fractional Transfer STV Count (Droop-Static-While method)

Code:

Counting votes for Maemo Community Council elections, Q1 2010 using Fractional Transfer STV.

10 candidates running for 5 seats.

Using a Droop-Static-Whole threshold.



 R|Arek Stop|Randall A|Cosimo Kr|Andrew Fl|Attila Cs

  |czynski (|rnold (te|oll (zehj|egg (Jaff|ipa (Atti

  |hopbeat) |xrat)    |otkah)   |a)       |la77/achi

  |         |         |         |         |pa)      

  |---------+---------+---------+---------+---------

  |Steven Pa|Javier S.|Andrea Gr|Andrew Bl|Ryan Abel

  |olini Yea| Pedro (J|andi (and|ack (andr| (General

  |ger (YoDu|aviSPedro|y80)     |ewfblack)|Antilles)

  |de)      |)        |         |         |         

  |---------+---------+---------+---------+---------

  |Exhausted|Surplus  |Threshold

  |         |         |         

  |         |         |         

  |         |         |         

====================================================

 1|17.000000|97.000000|16.000000|84.000000|29.000000

  |13.000000|32.000000|24.000000|13.000000|72.000000

  | 0.000000|52.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count of first choices. Candidates Randall

  | Arnold (texrat), Andrew Flegg (Jaffa), and Ryan

  | Abel (GeneralAntilles) have reached the

  | threshold and are elected. Candidates have

  | surplus votes so surplus votes will be

  | transferred for the next round.

====================================================

 2|19.783502|67.000000|17.546390|84.000000|36.113394

  |17.020614|33.855668|25.546390|19.804116|72.000000

  | 4.329926|22.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after transferring surplus votes from

  | Randall Arnold (texrat) with a transfer value of

  | 30.000000/97.000000. Candidates have surplus

  | votes so surplus votes will be transferred for

  | the next round.

====================================================

 3|20.997782|67.000000|18.760670|67.000000|40.363374

  |17.020614|36.284228|27.570190|22.232676|72.000000

  | 7.770466| 5.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after transferring surplus votes from

  | Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) with a transfer value of

  | 17.000000/84.000000. Candidates have surplus

  | votes so surplus votes will be transferred for

  | the next round.

====================================================

 4|21.067226|67.000000|19.038446|67.000000|41.057814

  |17.437278|36.770336|28.472962|23.413224|67.000000

  | 8.742714| 0.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after transferring surplus votes from Ryan

  | Abel (GeneralAntilles) with a transfer value of

  | 5.000000/72.000000. No candidates have surplus

  | votes so candidates will be eliminated and their

  | votes transferred for the next round.

====================================================

 5|22.067226|67.000000|21.417168|67.000000|42.815258

  |         |43.458336|30.400796|24.341058|67.000000

  |11.500158| 0.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after eliminating Steven Paolini Yeager

  | (YoDude) and transferring votes. No candidates

  | have surplus votes so candidates will be

  | eliminated and their votes transferred for the

  | next round.

====================================================

 6|28.787216|67.000000|         |67.000000|46.289462

  |         |48.348716|33.019352|24.852716|67.000000

  |14.702538| 0.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after eliminating Cosimo Kroll (zehjotkah)

  | and transferring votes. No candidates have

  | surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated

  | and their votes transferred for the next round.

====================================================

 7|34.807810|67.000000|         |67.000000|57.585110

  |         |50.508198|35.181556|         |67.000000

  |17.917326| 0.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after eliminating Andrew Black

  | (andrewfblack) and transferring votes. No

  | candidates have surplus votes so candidates will

  | be eliminated and their votes transferred for

  | the next round.

====================================================

 8|         |67.000000|         |67.000000|74.663732

  |         |55.768626|38.453380|         |67.000000

  |27.114262| 7.663732|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after eliminating Arek Stopczynski

  | (hopbeat) and transferring votes. Candidate

  | Attila Csipa (Attila77/achipa) has reached the

  | threshold and is elected. Candidates have

  | surplus votes so surplus votes will be

  | transferred for the next round.

====================================================

 9|         |67.000000|         |67.000000|67.000000

  |         |59.403748|40.598939|         |67.000000

  |28.997313| 0.000000|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after transferring surplus votes from

  | Attila Csipa (Attila77/achipa) with a transfer

  | value of 7.663732/74.663732. No candidates have

  | surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated

  | and their votes transferred for the next round.

====================================================

10|         |67.000000|         |67.000000|67.000000

  |         |81.205241|         |         |67.000000

  |47.794759|14.205241|67.000000

  |-------------------------------------------------

  | Count after eliminating Andrea Grandi (andy80)

  | and transferring votes. Candidate Javier S.

  | Pedro (JaviSPedro) has reached the threshold and

  | is elected.



Winners are Randall Arnold (texrat), Andrew Flegg

(Jaffa), Attila Csipa (Attila77/achipa), Javier S.

Pedro (JaviSPedro), and Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles).

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

Congratulations!
We have a very strong council which hopefully will archieve their goals.
Good luck!

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

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Originally Posted by CrashandDie (Post 589227)

And here are the results as generated per OpenSTV, using the Standard STV count.

Maemo.org uses Fractional Transfer STV with Droop-Static-Whole threshold (use Options -> Show All Methods to enable it), but the final outcome is the same in this instance.

Thanks to all the candidates and voters. Still disappointed at the turnout (only 399 ballots) though.

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

would have liked to have seen some change,but i still think we have good representation. Good luck to the council ;) - and well done :D

Also, well done and thank you to the others, i really appreciated the time and effort everyone put into standing.

Re: [March 2010 Council Election] Voting Now Open!

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Originally Posted by lma (Post 589242)

Thanks lma, wasn't sure, so that's why I ran a few of them. As I just said in #maemo, it's amazing how little difference there is.

Why again are we using STV, if the impact is so small? Or is it so small because the turnout is so ridiculously unbalanced?