Open Stack

The Board is considering these options, but any change will need to be approved by a vote of the Board and of the members. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:thierry at openstack.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:13 AM
To: Tristan Goode; Monty Taylor; Todd Moore; Tim Bell; Alan Clark; 程辉; Jonathan Bryce; Mark McLoughlin; Radcliffe, Mark; Simon Anderson
Cc: elections-committee at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [Elections-committee] Condorcet Explanation - Next Draft

Tristan Goode wrote:
> Some questions....
> 
> "The OpenStack Board of Directors wishes to consider a resolution to 
> call a special meeting of members to amend the bylaws of the OpenStack 
> Foundation to remove the “cumulative voting”
> defined process for election of the 8 individual member Directors, and 
> provide for an “order of preference” voting system using either the 
> Condorcet method or the Single Transferable Vote
> (STV) method of voting."
> 
> I may have missed this decision in earlier meetings but are we not 
> going to ask the electorate if they want to change the voting system?

I think that's what a "special meeting of members" ends up being... a vote ?

> Will the ballot papers be generated in random order to avoid donkey 
> vote issues?

It's implementation-specific. For example by default CIVS randomizes the ballot to avoid those.

--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Please consider the environment before printing this email.

The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its contents, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the message. To contact us directly, send to postmaster at dlapiper.com. Thank you.