Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How do we decide on the new logo?

3 Jan 2009

      On 3 jan 2009, at 17:33, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
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On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:15 AM,  wrote:
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On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Achim Schneider wrote:
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Step 2: Determine the winner by polling preferences, same-level
preference (ambivalence) allowed
(eg. place 1 for logos C and D, place 2 for A and place 3 for B)
The only reasonable method of voting using this ranking data is one  
of the Condorcet methods.  How you break ties doesnt matter much to  
me. Wikimedia, Debian, Gentoo, and Software in the Public Intrest  
all use Schulze method for what that is worth.
Yes. Condorcet voting picks the best compromise and is IMO the way  
to do this - we won't all agree on the best logo, but at least we  
can pick the least disliked one.
It doesn't need to be super sophisticated, just a box next to each  
logo where you can enter a rank in any range you like (1 being most  
preferred, empty boxing being equivalent to +Inf), allowing multiple  
entries to share the same rank.
Since there already is a condorcet voting package on Hackage, I made a  
simple (HAppS powered) web app where you can drag-n-drop your  
preferences.  See http://github.com/eelco/voting/tree/master for the  
code (contributions more than welcome! Note, there's also a jQuery  
branch which has a bit different drag-n-drop behaviour) and http://code.tupil.com/voting/ 
  for a live demo.

It needs a bit more work but mainly a whole bulk of decisions, like
* Limit voting, if so how?  Email confirmation, IP based, vote once,  
once per day?
* Maybe don't show the results until the contest is over?

I, for one, very much welcome any benevolent dictator to make these  
decisions, because we can probably argue about pros and cons for  
months.  Since Don started the contest (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-December/051836.html 
) and also seems to have some ideas about the voting process (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-December/052257.html 
), I hereby officially appoint him to lead to masses.  (Does it work  
like that? ;)

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Regards,

Eelco Lempsink