Messages in this thread | | | From | Laurent Pinchart <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Results: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election 2016 | Date | Thu, 03 Nov 2016 20:38:44 +0200 |
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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 (http://sdaps.org). 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.
-- Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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