Single vote for most preferred? Single transferable vote?
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:50 AM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Given that a bunch of people added names to the sheet, I'll take that as > tacit agreement to the proposed process. > > Let's move to the first vote phase. I've added a column for everybody's > votes. Let's try to wrap up the vote by 10am on Wednesday. > > thanks! > Jacques > > > > -- > Jacques Nadeau > CTO and Co-Founder, Dremio > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> It sounds like we need to do a little more work on the Vector proposal >> before the board would like to consider it. The main point of contention >> right now is the name of the project. We need to decide on a name and get >> it signed off through PODLINGNAMESEARCH. >> >> Naming is extremely subjective so I'd like to propose a process for >> selection that minimizes pain. This is an initial proposal and >> >> We do the naming in the following steps >> - 1: Collect a set of names to be considered >> - 2: Run a vote for 2 days where each member ranks their top 10 options >> 1..10 >> - 3: Take the top ten vote getters and do a basic analysis of whether we >> think that any have legal issues. Keep dropping names that have this until >> we get with 10 reasonably solid candidate names >> - 5: Take the top ten names and give people 48 hours to rank their top 3 >> names >> - 6: Start a PODLINGNAMESEARCH on the top rank one, if that doesn't work, >> try the second and third options. >> >> I suggest we take name suggestions for step 1 from everyone but then >> constrain the voting to the newly proposed project [1]. We could just do >> this in a private email thread but I think doing it on Drill dev is better >> in the interest of transparency. This isn't the perfect place for that but >> I'm not sure a better place exists. >> >> I'm up for changing any or all of this depending on what others think. >> Just >> wanted to get the ball rolling on a proposed process. >> >> If this works, I've posted a doc at [2] that we can use for step 1. >> >> Thanks, >> Jacques >> >> [1] List of proposed new project members/voters: Todd Lipcon, Ted Dunning, >> Michael Stack, P. Taylor Goetz, Julian Hyde, Julien Le Dem, Jacques >> Nadeau, >> James Taylor, Jake Luciani, Parth Chandra, Alex Levenson, Marcel >> Kornacker, >> Steven Phillips, Hanifi Gunes, Wes McKinney, Jason Altekruse, David Alves, >> Zain Asgar, Ippokratis Pandis, Abdel Hakim Deneche, Reynold Xin. >> [2] >> >> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q6UqluW6SLuMKRwW2TBGBzHfYLlXYm37eKJlIxWQGQM/edit#gid=0 >> > >
