Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Nov 2016 06:46:29 -0600 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Results: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election 2016 |
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:38:44PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >Hi Chris, > >On Thursday 03 Nov 2016 10:47:03 Chris Mason wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:06:35PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >> > On Thursday 03 Nov 2016 11:39:51 Steven Rostedt wrote: >> >> The TAB elections are now complete. Thank you to all the candidates for >> >> putting their names forward, and a big thank you to Grant Likely, Shuah >> >> Khan, Jes Sorensen, H. Peter Anvin, Chris Mason and the Linux Foundation >> >> staff who helped handle the election logistics. >> >> >> >> With 108 ballots cast, the top 5 candidates received: >> >> >> >> The next highest voted candidate received 44 votes. >> >> >> >> Full results are available on request. >> > >> >Just curious, is there any particular reason to not publish the full >> >results ? >> > >> >Could you also share feedback on the automated ballot counting process >> >> Just nominating yourself and going through an election can be >> uncomfortable, at least it always is for me. We are lucky to have a >> deeply qualified group, and I'd rather focus on encouraging people that >> didn't get elected this time to try again next year. >> >> The ballots were counted by hand. Grant, Steve and Shuah each counted >> every ballot and they verified that everyone got the same results. >> >> We also test drove the optical scanning of the ballots with a tool >> called SDAPS. This was Peter's idea, and it ended up >> working very nicely. >> >> Out of 108 ballots, sdaps missed a single vote and didn't have any false >> positives. The optical scanning was faster than the hand counting, and >> we used the SDAPS gui to verify each ballot, and correct the single >> miss. The gui is the major reason I trusted the result, it's minimal >> but really fast. We used an off-the-shelf scanner, chosen because it >> was the fastest model that fit in my suitcase. >> >> SDAPS recommends latex to design the ballot, and provides macros to make >> it fairly painless. Latex brings its own frustrations, but it worked. > >If it wasn't clear from my e-mail, I have complete trust in the TAP to hand >count the ballots. I was curious about how the SDAPS automated process worked >out, thank you for providing feedback about it.
No problem, I couldn't remember if I'd mentioned the hand counting when I talked about the scanner during the election, so I was mostly clarifying for the list.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to vote!
-chris
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