From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEB701A74 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2019 15:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pl1-f194.google.com (mail-pl1-f194.google.com [209.85.214.194]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FE3D834 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2019 15:01:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pl1-f194.google.com with SMTP id 9so522183ple.5 for ; Tue, 02 Jul 2019 08:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2019 20:31:07 +0530 From: Bhaskar Chowdhury To: Laura Abbott Message-ID: <20190702150107.GA977@Gentoo> References: <5A0ABD9B-34F3-44FE-838E-D66F3BB5D15B@labbott.name> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5A0ABD9B-34F3-44FE-838E-D66F3BB5D15B@labbott.name> Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections -- Change in Voting Procedures List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Whoa! awesome! cool ...second paragraph explainig the trouble..thanks a bunch Laura. Thanks, Bhaskar On 10:49 Tue 02 Jul , Laura Abbott wrote: >On behalf of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB), I'd like >to announce that we are making changes to the voting procedures for the >2019 TAB elections. The one-line summary is that we are looking to move >to an electronic voting system instead of paper ballots with the purpose >of giving more members of our community a say in the membership of the TAB. > >The longer explanation: > >The kernel summit was created as an in-person event for kernel developers to >meet face-to-face and solve problems. When the TAB was created as part of >the Linux Foundation, it made sense to have voting for TAB representation >be part of kernel summit. Today, the kernel community has grown dramatically >in size with a community across the globe. Attending an in-person event may >not always be feasible for reasons such as finances, personal obligations, or >visa issues. This means that developers who cannot attend kernel summit >don't get a chance to vote for TAB representation. Moving to an online >voting system would allow for more participation. > >The system we are looking at using is the Condorcet Internet Voting Service >(CIVS) https://civs.cs.cornell.edu . This system was recommended to us >by other communities who use it for similar board representation. It's >designed with security and privacy as a priority and source code is available >under a BSD-like research license (https://github.com/andrewcmyers/civs). >For 2019, we intend to use the version of CIVS hosted on their servers >because of serious concerns about the ability of the TAB to develop, >maintain, and host CIVS. We would welcome support to make this happen in >future years. > >One of the biggest changes with using CIVS is that we will be using ranked >choice voting. Previously, the voting instructions were to vote for $m out >of $n candidates. Each vote was treated as equal and the top $m candidates >won. With ranked choice voting, you now express a preference from 1 to $n >on how much you want a candidate. The theory is that this allows for >more accurate and fair voting. The TAB had some discussion about this and >we did discuss options for going back to our old voting method. In order >to do this with CIVS, we would have to host our own infrastructure which >we have decided not to do this year. Condorcet supports multiple voting >methods and the method we plan to use is Condorcet-IRV. You can read more >about the theory at https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/rp.html#runoff > >While the ultimate goal is to completely eliminate the need for in person >voting, in the interest of small incremental changes, and avoiding too >many changes at once, the voting pool is going to be approximately that >of past years. Kernel summit is co-located with Linux Plumbers once again >this year. Everyone who is registered for Plumbers will be eligible to >vote in this years TAB election. The goal for future years is to continue >to increase the number of eligible voters. > >If you have feedback, feel free to speak up here or privately at >tab@lists.linux-foundation.org. We do intend to do a dry run of the voting >procedure at a future date before the actual elections. If for some reason >we run into unforeseen issues with electronic voting, we will use paper >ballots for voting this year. Our goal is to increase the enfranchisement of >the Linux kernel development community for TAB elections. > >Thanks, >Laura > >_______________________________________________ >Ksummit-discuss mailing list >Ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org >https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-discuss --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCAAdFiEEnwF+nWawchZUPOuwsjqdtxFLKRUFAl0bca8ACgkQsjqdtxFL KRU5yggA0nL7VZ1ZsZbaMRwDRR0jumQeCnAb38JpY9crH8VupRhi67St7kBGJ1y/ afpcJMOpiRHwaYm2o3Xin8iKQf2istcNf4heAm8xYj/0H0WMJkhTBjC2qfHSqp64 se/HqKxlZR5OCPWfUkub/l7qvuOxaS8m8x2xuBbSC3gtsNBgY7C/WUjWUbb3MFEY JYSuIriTFWnfqBTQvIWjV2QZuGe2R24UQR8z+FWuVbeHIByMulbQx9zMh7pL/rrD lmLaReVR86EHch2OdCkjHwHFYa0/Ir/0h0gMNlOD11a0Xw8Hs00iWlyqUDFmQaZF dUK2+BHHMzqMD11ee5KPbircFVDuzw== =9/X1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv--