[OOTB-hive] [OOTB-Hive] [ELECTION] Time to Vote!
Douglas C. R. Paes
douglascrp at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 16:22:34 BST 2015
Yeah... That was a great idea
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015, 12:05 Bindu Wavell <bindu at wavell.net> wrote:
> Um, so I don't think I can vote yet, but I just want to say huge THUMBS UP
> to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy example!!!!!
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:49 AM Cristina Martín Ruiz <
> cristinamartinruiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am writing you this email because it's time to vote in The Order Of The
>> Bee!
>> Boriss is "out of office" during some days, so I will explain you the
>> mechanism following his guideline:
>> How to vote for the Board elections
>>
>> Here is a description about how the vote is made for the elections of the
>> Board.
>>
>> -
>>
>> Each vote is composed by a list of 5 candidates ordered by priority.
>> Note that 5 is the size of the board, according to the by-laws.
>> -
>>
>> No candidate must be listed twice in a single vote.
>> -
>>
>> Omissions are allowed.
>>
>> Closing the elections
>>
>> Once the voting period is closed, candidates are sorted by two parameters
>> in this order:
>>
>> -
>>
>> Number of votes
>> -
>>
>> Arithmetic mean of priority
>>
>> The first 5 members are elected as the Board.
>> Draws
>>
>> The only important draw occurs when the Board cannot be determined. For
>> instance, when there is a draw between the 5th and the 6th position. In
>> such case, a new election needs to be run as tie-break where votes will be
>> emitted only for those candidates drawing.
>> Example
>>
>> Here is an example of an election with only 2 votes.
>>
>> *Vote 1*
>>
>> 1. Zaphod Beeblebrox
>> 2. Arthur Dent
>> 3. Trillian
>> 4. Ford Prefect
>> 5. Marvin
>>
>> *Vote 2*
>>
>> 1. Arthur Dent
>> 2. Trillian
>> 3. Slartibartfast
>> 4. Ford Prefect
>> 5. Zaphod Beeblebrox
>>
>> That gives us the following ranking ordered by number of votes, and then
>> by average priority:
>>
>> R = Ranking V = Number of votes P = Arithmetic mean priority
>>
>> R V P Candidate
>> - - --- -------------------
>> 1 2 1.5 Arthur Dent
>> 2 2 2.5 Trillian
>> 3 2 3.0 Zaphod Beeblebrox
>> 4 2 4.0 Ford Prefect
>> 5 1 3.0 Slartibartfast
>> 6 1 5.0 Marvin
>>
>> Which means that Marvin is out of the Board. He has the same amount of
>> votes as Slartibartfast, but Slartibartfast has a better average priority.
>> Marvin, the paranoid android, probably does not even care. You know, brain
>> the size of a planet and they ask him to be in a Board.
>> I will send in a while an email with more information to those members
>> that can vote ;-)
>>
>> Regards!
>>
>> Cris.
>>
>> --
>> *Cristina Martín Ruiz*
>> Alfresco Specialist
>> ---------------------
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