[Linux-aus] Candidacy Support Statement - President or Ordinary Council Member

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 11:13 +1100, Stewart Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016, at 02:49 PM, Russell Stuart wrote:
> > 
> > Assuming LA is prepared to pay the $15/mo instead of using
> > volunteers,
> > is this now fulfilled?  There is still the issue of replacing
> > MemberDB
> > voting of course, but presumably you could use both for a year or
> > so. 
> > It's just a web site so the results would be visible to the
> > membership.
> >  That would eliminate most of the speculative arguments occurring
> > now.
> 
> I'd advocate spending LA money to pay somebody to develop the needed
> free software.
> 
> I have no doubt that other organizations would like/benefit from
> preferential voting in an open source CRM for orgs.

The Samba Team needed this for our internal elections, and 
Bradley M. Kuhn (bkuhn) of the Software Freedom Conservency hacked this
up from the parts he could find on the 'net:
https://github.com/conservancy/voting

Andrew Bartlett
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