[bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election

Mon Sep 4 09:06:24 EDT 2017

Thank you Jeremy and the SC group for your intentions to co-opting me onto
the SC. I really appreciate it and I wait for all elected members to give
their view. It will be ok either way ;)

Best,

Antonella

On 4 September 2017 at 02:49, Michael J. Oghia <mike.oghia at gmail.com> wrote:

> I support you Renata, and thank you for being part of this.
>
> Best,
> -Michael
>
> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Renata Aquino Ribeiro <raquino at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Thank you Imram and Dave
>> I guess, seeing we are six and four are on the same page, we can
>> consider that integrating Antonella into the SC group w/ voting rights
>> is a go :) Unless there are objections.
>>
>> I guess now our challenge is talking about our next steps.
>> And as we had fewer candidates than SC slots, I'm guessing other
>> volunteers who want to collaborate may be joining in for projects or
>> tasks.
>> There's a lot that can be done and not too many of us.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Renata
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 5:26 AM,  <imran at igfpak.org> wrote:
>> > Dear Jeremy and All,
>> >
>> > Thanks for your efforts and support for conducting the Best Bits
>> Steering
>> > Committee Election perfectly.
>> >
>> > Congratulation to the elected members of the "Best Bits Steering
>> Committee".
>> >
>> > Although voting turnout is very low, which is around 12% out of 26% who
>> (at
>> > least) tried to use their ballot, but only 47% out of them could
>> > successfully cast their e-vote. So, one of the agenda item could be
>> > encouraging our members to participate in the BestBits activities,
>> whereas
>> > election is also an important activity.
>> >
>> > I also agree on the suggestion to co-opt Antonella onto the steering
>> > committee. I hope her participation would be helpful for us.
>> >
>> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members!
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> >> I would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them
>> >> with
>> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing
>> >> list, if required.
>> >
>> >
>> > Thanks for your offer, yes we need your support, please keep performing
>> > administrative role of the website as well as mailing list. I am also
>> > available to assist you if and when required.
>> >
>> > Thanking you and Best Regards
>> >
>> >
>> > Imran Ahmed Shah
>> >
>> > Founder, President & Executive Member of
>> >    Linguistic Internet Council,
>> >    Urdu Internet Society
>> >    Internet Governance Forum of Pakistan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Quoting Jeremy Malcolm <jmalcolm at eff.org>:
>> >
>> >> The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in.
>> >>
>> >> Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been members
>> >> for two months prior to the election, although some of these bounced.
>> >> 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but only 63 of
>> >> them followed through and completed the voting forum by clicking the
>> >> submit button on the page.  (The former figure might not be completely
>> >> accurate, because some corporate email systems will automatically click
>> >> on links in email, to check whether they are phishing or as part of a
>> >> malware scan.  But we can be pretty confident about the latter figure.)
>> >>
>> >> Although we had more available positions on the steering committee than
>> >> nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an option, I
>> >> have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to the steering
>> >> committee you must have had more people voting for you than voting for
>> >> "no candidate".  With 63 votes cast, this means that the threshold for
>> >> election was 32 votes.  In other words, if 31 people didn't want you on
>> >> the committee but 32 people did, you would be elected.
>> >>
>> >> Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected at
>> >> all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every position.  Of
>> >> the remaining 48:
>> >>
>> >>   * 3 voted for the election of a only single member
>> >>   * 4 voted for the election of only two members
>> >>   * 4 voted for the election of only three members
>> >>   * 12 voted for the election of only four members
>> >>   * 7 voted for the election of only five members
>> >>   * 18 voted for the election of all six members
>> >>
>> >> The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as follows:
>> >>
>> >>   * Nighat Dad: 38 votes
>> >>   * Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes
>> >>   * Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes
>> >>   * Dave Burstein: 37 votes
>> >>   * Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes
>> >>   * Antonella Perini: 31 votes
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but
>> only
>> >> a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error!  So I feel bad
>> >> for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the new steering
>> >> committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto the committee as
>> an
>> >> honorary non-voting member, past precedent would allow them to do this.
>> >> Also, this would ensure that the steering committee has a 50/50% equal
>> >> gender balance, as well as giving effect to the most popular choice
>> that
>> >> there should be a steering committee of six.  Nevertheless, I leave
>> this
>> >> for the new committee to decide.
>> >>
>> >> Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members!  I
>> would
>> >> also like offer my services to the new committee to assist them with
>> >> administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website and mailing
>> >> list, if required.
>> >>
>> >> If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling software
>> in
>> >> order to verify the results as I have presented them, please let me
>> know
>> >> and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jeremy Malcolm
>> >> Senior Global Policy Analyst
>> >> Electronic Frontier Foundation
>> >> https://eff.org
>> >> jmalcolm at eff.org
>> >>
>> >> Tel: 415.436.9333 ext 161
>> >>
>> >> :: Defending Your Rights in the Digital World ::
>> >>
>> >> Public key: https://www.eff.org/files/2016/11/27/key_jmalcolm.txt
>> >> PGP fingerprint: 75D2 4C0D 35EA EA2F 8CA8 8F79 4911 EC4A EDDF 1122
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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