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!
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: the board is empowered to set aside election results if I pay my 300 closest friends to join the OSI. While these concerns are largely theoretical, there are more pluralistic voting systems out there. On Wed, Mar 18, 2020, 9:32 AM Tobie Langel <to...@unlockopen.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 23:48 Gil Yehuda via License-discuss < > license-discuss@lists.opensource.org> wrote: > >> Moreover, the system is set up so that voters neglect to vote for people >> they don't want to see seated. >> > > 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. > > 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. >> > > 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. > > —tobie > >> _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org >
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