On 12 June 2017 at 05:48, Ian Cordasco wrote:

Hello everybody!

The preliminary Board of Directors winners are:

Van Lindberg Naomi Ceder Eric Holscher Jackie Kazil Paul Hildebrandt Lorena Mesa Thomas Wouters Kushal Das Marlene Mhangami Kenneth Reitz Trey Hunner

Thanks and congratulations to our incoming board members, and thanks also to all of the other candidates who offered to volunteer their time providing community oversight of the operations of the PSF! For folks that weren't themselves elected, but nevertheless have initiatives they would like to pursue, I'll take the opportunity to remind everyone of the active PSF Working Groups (https://www.python.org/psf/committees/#active-work-groups), as well as: - the Grants program, to request financial support for community initiatives: https://www.python.org/psf/grants/ - fiscal sponsorship arrangements, whereby the PSF provides legal and administrative support for management of targeted donations: https://wiki.python.org/moin/FiscalSponsorship - the process for forming new Working Groups in the ByLaws to provide PSF-backed organisational structure, and potentially a recurring annual budget: https://www.python.org/psf/bylaws/ For folks that are mainly interested in *doing* the work of the PSF, rather than in deciding which activities should be prioritised when allocating funding support, these other possibilities may also be more appealing than standing for election to the Board of Directors :) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

I can attest that the tie-break software deterministically chooses Trey Hunner when tied with Paola Katherine Pacheco. Any other member can download the tool to verify the result by running: 532-psf-election % python break-ties.py -c "Paola Katherine Pacheco" -c "Trey Hunner" -n 1 ['Trey Hunner'] Effectively, we declare in advance the ordering of ties among each N candidates who might tie for a relevant position. In the case of this election, we might potentially have needed to break ties to decide between the 3, 2, and 1 year terms, but no ties happened to fall at those boundaries (albeit Marlene Mhangami and Kenneth Reitz tied for the 9/10 spots... but since either of those go into the same term cohort, there is no need to break that tie). Even though Trey could know in advance of the election that he would be selected in the event of a tie with Paola, this is actually of little use for a candidate trying to "game" an election. Trey would also, for example, lose such a tie with Kenneth Reitz or Marlene Mhangami had those occurred. It's very unlikely that a candidate could devise a strategy to come in last place, but tie with a some particular candidate the algorithm would have them beat. Moreover, three-way ties need not share any ordering with a two-way between a subset of those three (and likewise for any N and N-1). As an illustration, had Lorena Mesa received fewer votes, simply adding her to the contest between Trey and Paolo would happen to choose Paolo over Trey (and Lorena over Trey also, in this case): 552-psf-election % python break-ties.py -c "Paola Katherine Pacheco" -c "Trey Hunner" -c "Lorena Mesa" -n 2 ['Paola Katherine Pacheco', 'Lorena Mesa'] On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Ian Cordasco wrote:

Hello everybody!

The preliminary Board of Directors winners are:

Van Lindberg Naomi Ceder Eric Holscher Jackie Kazil Paul Hildebrandt Lorena Mesa Thomas Wouters Kushal Das Marlene Mhangami Kenneth Reitz

With Paola Katherine Pacheco and Trey Hunner tied for the 11th seat. Using https://github.com/python/psf-election/blob/ 357fa903b8ba224fd2e5207eeb4208794567bf56/break-ties.py the tie has been broken and the 11th member Board of Directors is Trey Hunner.

Ewa will contact the new directors with on-boarding information later today.

This year there were 328 votes cast out of 630 potential voters. That means there was a 52% voter turnout for the election. This is the highest of any of the elections where I have served as Election Administrator.

Further, in order for the Bylaws to be approved, we needed more than 51% of those who voted to approve the change. 51% of 328 is just about 168 voters and all bylaws amendments were approved by far more than that, thus they have all been approved by the membership.

The results are available at: https://vote.heliosvoting.org/helios/e/PSF-2017-June-Vote

Cheers, Ian Cordasco PSF Election Administrator _______________________________________________ PSF-Community mailing list PSF-Community@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community

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