[Committers] Voting is open

Philipp von Weitershausen philikon at philikon.de
Tue Jun 6 17:38:07 EDT 2006


Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
> On 6 Jun 2006, at 23:25, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
>>>
>>> On Jun 6, 2006, at 5:10 PM, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please explain how the votes are actually tallied? If
>>>> this is not a "one member one vote" kind of thing then how exactly do
>>>> these multiple votes count?
>>>
>>> See the by laws:
>>>
>>>   http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Foundation/ZopeFoundationByLaws.pdf
>>>
>>> and the Wikipedia definition of "single transferable vote":
>>>
>>>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote
> 
> Thanks Jim, I had not realized that earlier allusions to the bylaws
> document were trying to solve this question as well.
> 
> That is one messy voting scheme. Who in the world would think this is
> better than good old-fashioned "one voter, one vote"...

Or "everyone gets to vote on as many candidates s/he wants and the
candidate with the most votes wins"...

I think the first board should simplify the election process ;)

Philipp


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