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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces@lists.opensource.org> On Behalf Of Rick Moen<br>Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 2:17 PM<br>To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org<br>Subject: Re: [License-discuss] How can we as a community help empower authors outside license agreements?</p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>In case it's useful, OSI's 2020 election results (with vote counts) were reported here: <a href="https://opensource.org/node/1049"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://opensource.org/node/1049</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'>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 <a href="https://opensource.org/node/1049"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>https://opensource.org/node/1049</span></a> 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.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If you go just on the cumulative numbers, there were 1,061 votes cast, so (82+36)/1,061 = 11.1%, as you note.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>If you go to the ballot tracker (<a href="https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/d93efdc8-5c7e-11ea-9fd6-dac1e2b1446f/voters/list">https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/elections/d93efdc8-5c7e-11ea-9fd6-dac1e2b1446f/voters/list</a>), 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:<o:p></o:p></p><ol start=1 type=1><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Josh Simmons: 224 (66%)</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Megan Byrd-Sanicki: 198 (58%)</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Ashley Wolf: 137 (41%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraph style='color:#444444;margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Coraline Ada Ehmke: 82+</span><span style='color:windowtext'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Tobie Langel: 36 (32%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>McCoy Smith: 92 (27%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Chris Short: 67 (20%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Mario Behling: 60 (18%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Mekki MacAulay: 56 (17%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>George Kraft: 39 (11%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>John Tredennick: 36 (11%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Travin Keith: 13 (4%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Michael Cruz: 7 (2%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Rohit Goswami:7 (2%)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoNormal style='color:#444444;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"'>Bob McWhirter : 7 (2%)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>