[Osmf-talk] 2015 AGM results

[Gregory]

On 17 December 2015 at 16:11, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
>
>  * Transfers. When someone is eliminated (or elected), where do those
> votes go? To which other candidates? This is more relevant when there
> are many political parties. Often people who vote for Party A are likely
> to put Party B as a further down vote. For this election, there aren't
> really parties in that sense, but one could probably group candidates
> into blocs, and see if/to what degree voters are "staying with the bloc"
> by seeing if transfers stay with the bloc.
>

You could put candidates into blocks based on their answer to a question
during the hustings[1]. Then repeat the process/analysis for each question.
I think this would be very interesting.
However it quickly gets boring assigning quantitative numbers/categories to
the qualitative answers. That is why I got bored in the second part of my
pre-election blog post[2], and listed the numbers I assigned without making
comment.

The analysis could(with the same warnings attached) be used by the board or
the OSMF community to make a comment that certain issues are important to
the electorate. All we currently see is what is important to those who
speak a lot on the mailing lists/forums/meetups.

I can predict the analysis will show one trend:
The "did not answer that question" block got more votes than one might
expect in an election. :p


[1] Questions to candidates -
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM15/Election_to_Board
[2] Pre-election blog with question categories -
http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2015/11/osmf-election-2015
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