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

[Pamela Chestek]

On 3/18/2020 12:46 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Tobie Langel (tobie at unlockopen.com):
>
>> The math here assumes voters only cast a single vote, which isn't how this
>> election works.
> No, sorry, I made no such assumption.  
>
>> Afaik the 35% number Coraline shared was based on data provided by Josh.
> I'm sorry, but to reiterate, Ms. Ehmke's blog post claim (emphasis
> added) was that she and you 'did collectively secure 35% of the _votes_
> from the membership'.  According to OSI, there were 1,061 _votes_ cast.
> This other divisor being waved about (338) is said to be the number of
> _voters_.
>
> If I've somehow flubbed long division, please show me where.  I won't
> even blame /usr/bin/bc, and instead just surrender my math degree
> directly to you.  ;->
>
> What would actually be appreciated is, when someone has time, if that
> person would kindly elaborate on which voting algorithm OSI uses for its
> Board elections.  (Not urgent; I'm mostly just curious.)
The Board Elections page <https://opensource.org/elections> says bloc
voting and links to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_non-transferable_vote

Pam


Pamela S. Chestek
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