[License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?

[McCoy Smith]

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In case it's useful, OSI's 2020 election results (with vote counts) were reported here:   <https://opensource.org/node/1049> https://opensource.org/node/1049

 

FWIW, Ms. Ehmke's blog post states that she and Tobie Langel 'did collectively secure 35% of the votes from the membership', but quick calculation[1] using the numbers at  <https://opensource.org/node/1049> https://opensource.org/node/1049 suggests this statistic is 11%.  (Perhaps Ms. Ehmke was relying on preliminary vote counts from elsewhere.  I wouldn't know, and just note the datum.)

 

If you go just on the cumulative numbers, there were 1,061 votes cast, so (82+36)/1,061 = 11.1%, as you note.

If you go to the ballot tracker (https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/d93efdc8-5c7e-11ea-9fd6-dac1e2b1446f/voters/list), there were 338 individual voters who cast votes, so 338/1,061 = 31.8%.  That’s more in the ballpark of the quoted 35%.  If you use that calculation, and you combine Ehmke+Langel, percentages are:

1.	Josh Simmons: 224 (66%)
2.	Megan Byrd-Sanicki: 198 (58%)
3.	Ashley Wolf: 137 (41%)
4.	Coraline Ada Ehmke: 82+ Tobie Langel: 36 (32%)
5.	McCoy Smith: 92 (27%)
6.	Chris Short: 67 (20%)
7.	Mario Behling: 60 (18%)
8.	Mekki MacAulay: 56 (17%)
9.	George Kraft: 39 (11%)
10.	John Tredennick: 36 (11%)
11.	Travin Keith: 13 (4%)
12.	Michael Cruz: 7 (2%)
13.	Rohit Goswami:7 (2%)
14.	Bob McWhirter : 7 (2%)

>From which, I would conclude, the winners got substantial majorities of the voters, and no one else did, even if we combine candidates based on platforms. So they really deserve a seat at the table; everyone else, probably not.

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