Comments on: Maemo community council elections: results in!

By: Dave Neary

Dave Neary — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:24:36 +0000

From memory, nothing changes in the first 3 positions – jaffa, GA and Tim are still the top 3 voters. sjgadsby was 4th by a good margin, and it was between Kees, Jamie and Alan were pretty much tied for 5th place (there was 1 vote difference covering the 3 of them).

By: Quim

Quim — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:06:58 +0000

For the lazy ones, what would have been the result if voters would have used the current system of the GNOME Foundation?

By: Dave Neary

Dave Neary — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:29:58 +0000

Interestingly enough, if we had used the GNOME counting method (everyone can vote for up to 5 people, and all votes receive equal weight), the results would not have been the same.

One candidate appeared very often as a 2nd, 3rd or 4th preference, and would have sneaked the 4th place in the election, and 3 other candidates would have been within 1 vote of each other for the 5th position.

This issue is one of the reasons I’ve been encouraging GNOME to change their election system for several years now – and hopefully this year it’ll get done.