Re: Board of directors membership election

From: Bruce Perens <bruce(at)perens(dot)com>
To: Ian Jackson <ijackson(at)chiark(dot)greenend(dot)org(dot)uk>
Cc: Wichert Akkerman <wichert(at)wiggy(dot)net>, spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org
Subject: Re: Board of directors membership election
Date: 2003-10-29 18:49:41
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Indeed. The Debian project is SPI's main activity. That project has
dealt with this problem with lengthy and proper process, in a manner
that few would object to. Why not adopt their system?<br>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Thanks<br>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bruce<br>
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Ian Jackson wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Wichert Akkerman writes ("Re: Board of directors membership election"):
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<pre wrap="">Previously Bdale Garbee wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Treating such ballots as worthless seems overly pedantic to me.
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<pre wrap="">Fact remains that you have to with condorcet since it doesn't allow
equal ranking of all the other options.
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That's not true, or at least most people's deployment of Condorcet
_does_ allow equal ranking of all the other options. The most obvious
example is the Debian one. Why don't we just use the interpretation
of Condorcet specified nicely in the (newly-revised) Debian
Constitution ?

Ian.

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