Hi, On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 5:14 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > *When there are more than two options on a ballot, the better approaches, > to find out what a community wants, are approval voting > <https://electology.org/approval-voting> and its slightly more nuanced > cousin, score voting <https://electology.org/score-voting>*. We already do > score voting when choosing conference programs, so we know what that looks > like and can easily put that into the Diebold-o-tron. Approval voting is > just "check everything that you're happy with"; so, for reasons that are > probably obvious, it's very easy to calculate and very good at finding the > option that the most people will be happy with. ("Minimizing Bayesian > regret," in the lingo.) I imagine getting the Diebold-o-tron to do that > will not be a problem, either. I'm on board with using approval or score voting (leaning a bit more towards score voting if that means less work for the keepers of the Diebold-o-tron). > Just as another suggestion, because I've been thinking about this for a > while: we could also treat these questions as independent. I'm giving an > approval voting-based example, below, but it could be rephrased to work > with score voting ("give a numeric score to each of the options below") or > even simple plurality ("choose your favorite option from this list"). I think this could work as well, but... > 2) *Assuming the community as a whole wants to go with fiscal sponsorship*, > choose the options you find acceptable: > * ALA/LITA > * DLF/CLIR > * OLF > * Other ... if we do this, I feel a bit more strongly about first asking OLF to respond to the FCIG questions [1] beforehand. I suspect, though, that this need not cause a significant delay in setting up the vote. [1] https://wiki.code4lib.org/FCIG_Report#Appendix_A_.E2.80.94_Questions_posed_to_potential_fiscal_sponsors Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Open Library Initiative phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457) email: [log in to unmask] web: https://equinoxInitiative.org direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366