Thoughts about Andreas' comments in the Wiki. The Wiki is not optimal for discussions. I will add this to the Wiki after waiting for discussion. - solprovider
Image samples: We should accept GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs. The SOLR contest has received 1 GIF, 12 PNGs, and 29 JPEGs. JPEG format: Quality is determined by the designer. 100% quality will not have any artifacts (and loses the benefits of compression.) My JPEG entry to the SOLR contest is at 70% quality because less than 60% added artifacts. Voting: I prefer a system allowing every person to vote on every entry. Only allowing positive votes for five entries will not give an accurate reflection of preferences. What if we only receive 4 entries? What if we receive 100 entries? What if 6 entries are very similar? Voting for every entry will discover which entries are most acceptable. Once the number is reduced to a manageable (2 or 3, definitely less than 10) quantity, a typical vote-for-favorite system can determine the winner. Vote scores: The Hate-Love example phrases were demonstrating the concept. Better words should be used for the contest: Unacceptable - Dislike - Good - Fantastic Mailing List vs. Application: This contest is an opportunity to demonstrate Lenya. An application to collect votes both eliminates the work of counting the votes and demonstrates how Lenya is useful in the real world. (Of course, the negative is someone needs to build the application and add it to our website.) Vote confirmation: Each voter must provide an email address. The email address is sent a memo requiring a response to validate the vote. The response may be a link confirming the vote, a reply, or the traditional password for login. Vote Strength: We could score votes based on the voter. This would be difficult without an application. Thoughts are: Unacceptable - Dislike - Good - Fantastic - Lenya Committer: -9, -5, 5, 9 - Apache.org email: -7, -4, 4, 7 - Lenya ML Posters: -5, -3, 3, 5 - Everybody else: -2, -1, 1, 2 This adds weight to our community and verifiable email addresses, and reduces the effect of one person using many addresses. An alternative is to assign portions of the final score to each category: 20% Lenya Committers 20% Apache.org email (include Lenya Committers) 30% Lenya ML Posters (include Lenya Committers and Apache.org email if qualified) 30% All votes. A Lenya ML Poster is an email address used to post to any Lenya ML during a period (one year?) prior to the start of the contest. Vote from the 22 Lenya Committers will be worth much more than votes from unknown addresses. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
