[governance] Re: Charter vote - issues

[David Allen]

I heartily support Bill's.  An add that Vittorio neither need make an apology!

The amount of effort is quite large.  It makes an important difference to a better place for us all.  Thanks indeed.

My sense - only from a brief read - is that we could simply proceed with what you have in hand, Avri.  I notice that, in the one vote so far, some did not understand creating a text-only email (and we all saw their votes ... even though the vote was 'open,' that is a little disconcerting).  So, one lesson, if we just proceed, is to get a little detailed about text-only, or whatever caused the misfire.

David

At 5:34 PM +0200 9/14/06, William Drake wrote:
>Hi Avri,
>
>There's no need to apologize once, much less four times.  You are doing us
>all a huge favor by organizing a process that nobody else has the time or
>inclination to undertake.  So many thanks for your efforts, look forward to
>the next step however you decide to work it.
>
>Best,
>
>Bill
>
>
>> From: Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
>> Reply-To: <governance at lists.cpsr.org>, Avri Doria <avri at acm.org>
>> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:15:23 -0400
>> To: Governance Caucus <governance at lists.cpsr.org>
>> Subject: [governance] Charter vote - issues
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I have an apology to make.  While it looked like it should be
>> relatively simple for someone to put a web front end on the voting
>> system, it will be more complicated then I thought.  The problem is
>> that for the votes to be counted they need to originate from a
>> specific email address, i.e. the address with which you are
>> subscribed to this list.  Getting a front end to send from your
>> specific address, especially if you use a web interface for email is
>> almost impossible.  I would need to set up new email accounts for
>> each voter on the system I am using for evote, and that is something
>> that I am unwilling to do at this point becasue:
>> a) it is not my system but one I am being allowed to use and the
>> addition of almost 200 new accounts is not a reasonable request for
>> me to make
>> b) doing it this way seems to be a kludge.  I would prefer to work
>> with some people to modify the eVote software so that a proper new
>> interface could be created.  This, however, would take time for
>> coding and testing that I just don't have at the moment.
>>
>> So, we are back to an email vote using plain text email ballots.
>>
>> Again, apologies.  I will initiate the vote shortly - on the igc-
>> voters at igcaucus.org mailing list (probably Monday) - which will leave
>> some time for people who object strongly to offer another solution.
>> I know there are other, more appropriate, voting systems out there,
>> but they are either not open source, cost money I don't have, or are
>> just not being made available to me.  This is the only solution I
>> have at the moment.  I still think eVote is a great tool for
>> participatory on-line democracy, I just don't think it is, yet, a
>> perfect match for what we need to do in the charter vote and in the
>> subsequent coordinator elections.
>>
>> Again apologies for my inability to provide the right interface.  I
>> do hope, however, that we can get on with the process.  I also
>> apologize for taking much longer to complete this interim period then
>> originally advertised.
>>
>> thanks
>> a.
>>
>>
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