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It seems to me that whatever voting scheme had been used to decide
this matter, there would always be cause for criticism unless it
was a unanimous vote. Probably best now is to stick with LA and
revisit this at a later date - say 2 yrs. The situation might
then be that a name change may indeed be more desirable and
popular.<br>
<br>
For info: I did not vote because I honestly forgot about it :(.
I was first inclined to vote to keep LA as the name, but I was
also sympathetic to the name change argument, and was tossing
between voting for "Open Source Council of Australia" as second
choice or other way around.<br>
<br>
I think there is a role for an umbrella organisation based on the
Australian Research Council model, but instead of morphing LA into
this it would be possibly better to create one and LA would be a
major founding member/sponsor, and I could see Open Source
Industry Australia also being an important founding Member
(Disclaimer: I am a current Director of OSIA - the opinion
expressed here is mine only and should not be read as representing
OSIA's position in anyway)., and also state based Linux User
Groups. I think there is still a role for LA as a predominantly
Linux focussed National organisation. <br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Daniel.<br>
<br>
<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Russell
Stuart <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div class="im">On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 14:21 +1100, John
Ferlito wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:28:12PM +1000, Russell
Stuart wrote:<br>
> > The right solution to me would be to go with the
original plan: run a<br>
> > second election with only those top three. Like
Chris I am a bit<br>
> > mystified as to why that isn't happening.<br>
><br>
> Because we announced that we would only follow the rest
of the process<br>
> if "No name change" didn't win.<br>
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Maybe.<br>
<br>
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In retrospect if the wording was "didn't get an outright
majority" I<br>
would be happier. "Winning" with a top 3 optional
preferential voting<br>
is a fuzzy concept, particularly when like this case no one
got a<br>
majority. Maybe that's something we can do if we have another
vote like<br>
this.<br>
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IMO the problem with the process was that two questions were
mingled up:<br>
1. should we retain the name? and<br>
2. which three names do we want to vote on if we want a new
name?<br>
<br>
Because of this, the existing LA name turned into one of the
options of a "new name" rather than being a filter of whether
to go for voting.<br>
<br>
I can't believe this would have been intended by the council.<br>
<br>
In the interest of fairness, I would therefore suggest to go
forward with the second round of voting on a "new name" in
which the top three (or maybe four) names) are set as choice,
which includes "LA". This will then give a much fairer
statement of whether the community actually does want to keep
the old name.<br>
<br>
Otherwise we will always have the question hanging around
about "what if the voting process had been different...".<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Silvia.<br>
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