<div dir="auto">Last year I ran for the OSI board on a platform of changing OSI board elections (and defending open source against predatory licensing.) One board member called it "probably the funniest platform I've seen." Here I am feeling like Cassandra of Troy!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At-large approval voting allows a winning bloc to control all seats. I do not believe that's the case here. My mental model of board voting is that thoughtful people vote for other dedicated, thoughtful people who are interested in a thankless, unpaid position. I cast my own votes based on my personal experiences with candidates. For truly adversarial voting there's an escape hatch: t<span style="font-family:sans-serif">he board is empowered to set aside election results if I pay my 300 closest friends to join the OSI.</span></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While these concerns are largely theoretical, there are more pluralistic voting systems out there.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 9:32 AM Tobie Langel <<a href="mailto:tobie@unlockopen.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">tobie@unlockopen.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 23:48 Gil Yehuda via License-discuss <<a href="mailto:license-discuss@lists.opensource.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">license-discuss@lists.opensource.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Moreover, the system is set up so that voters neglect to vote for people they don't want to see seated.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That would be true of other forms of voting, such as single transferable vote (STV), but isn’t true of stack ranking (which is what the OSI uses). In stack ranking, voting for other candidates than the ones you want to champion actually diminishes your favorite candidate’s chance of getting elected. You’re thus incentivized not to vote for more candidates than there are seats. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">But seeing it that way suggests that 256 of the 338 voters (about 75%) did not want an outcome with Coraline getting a seat and 302 voters (about 90%) did not want an outcome where Tobie got a seat.</div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As explained above, you can’t make this claim from the results of an election which uses stack ranking. What you can say is 256 voters out of 338 favored two other candidates over Coraline. Maybe all of them would have voted for Coraline had there been a third seat open. Maybe none would. You simply can’t tell from the results.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">—tobie</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote></div></div>
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