Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Results: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Election 2016

[Chris Mason]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:38:44PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Thursday 03 Nov 2016 10:47:03 Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:06:35PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > > On Thursday 03 Nov 2016 11:39:51 Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > >> The TAB elections are now complete. Thank you to all the candidates for
> > >> putting their names forward, and a big thank you to Grant Likely, Shuah
> > >> Khan, Jes Sorensen, H. Peter Anvin, Chris Mason and the Linux Foundation
> > >> staff who helped handle the election logistics.
> > >>
> > >> With 108 ballots cast, the top 5 candidates received:
> > >>
> > >> The next highest voted candidate received 44 votes.
> > >>
> > >> Full results are available on request.
> > >
> > >Just curious, is there any particular reason to not publish the full
> > >results ?
> > >
> > >Could you also share feedback on the automated ballot counting process
> >
> > Just nominating yourself and going through an election can be
> > uncomfortable, at least it always is for me.  We are lucky to have a
> > deeply qualified group, and I'd rather focus on encouraging people that
> > didn't get elected this time to try again next year.
> >
> > The ballots were counted by hand.  Grant, Steve and Shuah each counted
> > every ballot and they verified that everyone got the same results.
> >
> > We also test drove the optical scanning of the ballots with a tool
> > called SDAPS.  This was Peter's idea, and it ended up
> > working very nicely.
> >
> > Out of 108 ballots, sdaps missed a single vote and didn't have any false
> > positives.  The optical scanning was faster than the hand counting, and
> > we used the SDAPS gui to verify each ballot, and correct the single
> > miss.  The gui is the major reason I trusted the result, it's minimal
> > but really fast.  We used an off-the-shelf scanner, chosen because it
> > was the fastest model that fit in my suitcase.
> >
> > SDAPS recommends latex to design the ballot, and provides macros to make
> > it fairly painless.  Latex brings its own frustrations, but it worked.
>
> If it wasn't clear from my e-mail, I have complete trust in the TAP to hand
> count the ballots. I was curious about how the SDAPS automated process worked
> out, thank you for providing feedback about it.

No problem, I couldn't remember if I'd mentioned the hand counting when 
I talked about the scanner during the election, so I was mostly 
clarifying for the list.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to vote!

-chris