[bestbits] Results of Best Bits steering committee election

Renata Aquino Ribeiro raquino at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 11:18:01 EDT 2017 

Super! Thanks Mike and Antonella! It's great to see this positive
energy for the new members of the SC, we'll need your support for the
challenges ahead :)

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Antonella Perini <antomperini at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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