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    • Marylander

      We should probably have a status update at some point
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      @cfrank said in We should probably have a status update at some point:

      The tabulation method cannot be centrally controlled as long as the votes are public. The only thing I want the council to possibly do is make an effort to verify, organize and present the results. We do definitely want a way to organize and separately analyze different groups of ballots.

      I hear ya, I'd just hope that could all happen transparently in the forum threads. Any results I posted would link to something like this, where people can paste in ballots, analyze the code, fork the code, etc, so any forum user could check my work (and if they wantm retabulate them in different methods or filtering voters by origin, etc). https://codepen.io/karmatics/pen/ExKZVjM

      I mean, I don't care if council members want to come in and verify them, but I honestly doubt they'd want to do it as anything other than regular forum participants. This stuff just seems to lend itself to forums

      I could see this leading to something more official.... built in widgets and visualizers, pinned threads, permanent pages, etc, and in that case it makes some sense for the council to be able to approve things, but let's just see how this goes first.

      Hopefully if the council does meet soon, they can concentrate on the issues such as entry point, categories/tags, etc... changes that @Jack-Waugh will need to make and I think he wants others to make the decisions before doing so.

    • SaraWolk

      Forum Council Old Agendas:
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      Calling for the Next Council Meeting!
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      @SaraWolk said in Calling for the Next Council Meeting!:

      I propose we meet next on Wednesday Feb 17th, at 7:30 Pacific.

      Hi All, I'm confirming and reminding you all that we have our next forum meeting tomorrow at 7:30 PST.

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      Please invite people who would make great moderators.
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    • SaraWolk

      Agenda for 2/17/21 Forum Council Meeting
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      Please put in your availability and join us if you are interested in helping out with leadership for the Forum!
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    • SaraWolk

      MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT! 7/20, 5:30pm PT on Zoom!
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      Our Internet Domains

      We are holding:

      votingtheory.org ($14/yr)
      votingtheory.com ($9/yr)
      votingtheory.net ($12/yr)
      voting-theory.com ($9/yr)

      Obviously, we have to keep votingtheory.org, because that's our official domain. So I will renew that right after the meeting.

      During our founding meeting, I grabbed voting-theory.com (note the hyphen) by mistake. So I'm planning to cancel that.

      A user of the old forum advised we grab the .com and .net names to avoid being impersonated by any unfriendly agents who could turn up. I don't know how important this is. If the council decides to keep them and can raise the money other than from me, I will cooperate with the decision. Otherwise, I am inclined to drop them.

      Our other money expense is $60/yr. for the server. This could reasonably double if we get a second server in a different city to hold backup data. Currently, my personal server, which I am paying for anyway for other purposes, is holding the backups. I should double check whether the backup mechanism I set up is really working.

      As I mentioned, I hope we can recruit someone as treasurer.

      As I have also mentioned, in regard to tech support, we are in a more vulnerable position than would be ideal, because it all currently depends on one person (me). I don't mind doing it, but something could always happen to me (as something could happen to any single individual person). If someone can offer back-up support, they should submit their SSH public key.

      In solidarity for a better tomorrow (or at least, a tomorrow),

    • SaraWolk

      Meeting Agenda- 7/20/21 - 5:30pm PT - Forum Council Meeting
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      Mitigating Risks To This Forum
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      @jack-waugh Given the available alternatives I see no reason not to trust Equal Vote here.