[linux-aus] Re: distributed voting

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Anand Kumria wrote:

> > 
> > And, divorce the SGM's, and AGM's, from the conference, hopefully, as 
> 
> Eventually, although that is a slightly different debate, which I
> suspect would be get someone lost in the various threads going on at the
> moment.
> 
> A test will be if we can have an SGM towards the middle of the year to 
> fixup a few other errors in the consititution which were not put on the 
> table in time.
> 
> That will get both the organisation of LA and its members used to
> running things distributedly. Perhaps you can assist by looking into
> some system that would allow that to happen painlessly?
> 
> 

Have you read the message that I posted, in response to Leon's one, in 
the thread "Constitution version 6"?

In the part (my inline response), where I start the paragraph with "A 
mailing list is set up", I give a description of a model.

Is that sufficient as a starting point, or do you want more detail?

I can insert a copy of the paragraph into a message such as this, if you 
want, but, as it is already posted, I thought a reference to it, might 
be adequate.

If it is sufficient as a starting point, a trusted Perl or PHP developer 
on the list, could probably write a polling application to implement the 
details that I have mentioned. The application could then be tested, 
using surveys in the interim, before the SGm, to refine the application.

Depending on the degree of detail that you want, I can probably find the 
people involved in the model that was used in the thing in which I was 
involved, but it may take a while (a week, or some weeks), to find which 
computer has the material that can lead me back to the people involved, 
(I am not sure which email application I was using at the time, but I 
probably still have the emails from a few years ago) and, then try to 
contact them, to try to get details of the polling system, etc.

Let me know what you want from here.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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