From: "william(at)elan.net" <william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net>
I would like to hear any comments people have about this and would like
to make sure that these procedures are ok with everyone who wants to
particpate in upcoming elections for SPF council
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1. The elections should be run by neutral party and can not be run
by somebody who is a candidate for SPF council himself/herself.
The person doing should insure that voting procedures are followed and
everyone has equal opportunity to participate in the voting process.
2. Everyone who has participated in spf-discuss and posted at least once
prior to original call for nominations can vote (if entire list of
people can not be created, then its everyone who had posted in the
last 180 days prior to original call for nominations).
3. Voting takes place on the web with special form where people are asked
to choose 5 candidates from the list of people who have accepted the
nomination. Vote requires confirmation by email and address used must
be one from which person previously posted on spf-discuss (see #2).
4. People are not allowed to vote more then once and its preferable that
this be insured by technical means. If by chance more then one vote
does happen, only the first one will be counted.
Add - People are not allowed to vote for themselves (it's a wasted vote)
5. Election lasts for period of 5 days with at least one reminder sent
to spf-discuss mail list 24 hour before election closes.
Changed to 5 days - that's plenty of time.
6. All votes are collected and made avalable to the public within 24 hours
after the end of voting process. Each person and
his vote must be listed separately.
The e-mails are private and will only be referred to in the event of a
dispute.
7. After the votes have been published people must check their votes to
insure its listed correctly and have 3 days in which to post on
spf-discuss mail list if there is a problem.
Changed to 3 days to allow for weekends.
8. At the end of 10th day from the start of voting (unless serious
problems
are found with presented list of votes) the summary is published with
list of how many votes each candidate received. The 5 people with
largest number of votes are asked to form SPF council.
That is the end of the vote - all further rules are to do with the council
and nothing to do with the voting procedure
These amended rules are what I will work to - unless I get an outcry. I'm
not responding to any more mails about "rules" or suchlike till this is
over.
Now - can I have less beaurocracy and more offers of practical help, please?
I'd like temporary access (3 weeks or so) to servers in USA/Canada with
RH7.3+ patched ( not fedora ) , Apache, PHP 4.3+, Bind with a nameserver
running, any old domain on it with bind records on about 60sec ttl's (or
I'll use a spare one of mine). I'll need access to an included file for
Apaches httpd.conf, and an included folder of files for bind - that way you
can keep me out of root, but I'll need sudo to restart named and httpd. I'm
proposing to split the voters register according to approximate geography
and/or numbers so that folks won't get in a log-jam.
A uml virtual-server is the easiest way to do this - if anyone has that
technology ( if not it's time you all did ). Anyone able to help - please
buzz me off-list.
Slainte,
JohnP.
johnp(_at_)idimo(_dot_)com
ICQ 313355492