Welcome Ian! Would love to chat more about voting with you. Let’s chat!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Chief Architect Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398) NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 4:15 AM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, ian Jacobs <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Introductions and... what's a "keep factor"? >Hello! :) > >> On Dec 15, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Apache Steve Community, mean Ian Jacobs. Ian Jacobs, meet the Apache >>Steve Community. >> >> To bring everybody up to speed, Ian works for the W3C, which is >>evaluating voting systems. Ian came across python-vote-core[1] and has >>been experimenting with it. Then I mentioned that the ASF employs STV >>in board elections, and he wanted to compare notes. >> >> Ian mentioned that he has found bugs with python-vote-core and got >>fixes. I mentioned that our software has been problem free for us for >>years. >> >> Ian mentioned that he hasn't been able to get visibility into >>python-vote-core obtains the results it does. I mentioned that our >>software can produce a debugging output showing every iteration. >> >> Ian mentioned that the Meek rule has a "keep factor" that he didn't yet >>understand. I mentioned that... oh, wait a minute. I didn't mention >>anything, because at this point I'm clearly over my head. Instead, I'm >>doing introductions. :-) >> >> As I said, Apache Steve Community, mean Ian Jacobs. Ian Jacobs, meet >>the Apache Steve Community. >> >> - Sam Ruby >
