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Monday, October 28 • 15:15 - 15:50
Best Practices for Community Elections - Dave Neary, Red Hat

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More and more communities are moving to representative bodies elected from communities. This change results in a number of questions which can consume an inordinate amount of time and effort:

* Who can be nominated and elected?
* Who gets to vote?
* How can people be nominated?
* How will you administer the vote?
* Should you defend against ballot stuffing or similar ills?
* How will people's votes be counted?
* How do you ensure that the vote is anonymous and verifiable?

Community elections can be a fabulous way to engage with your community. The running and counting of elections also has the potential to be contentious, disruptive, and time-consuming. This presentation will lay out your options, describe how elections are run in various open source communities, and make recommendations for how to run your own elections efficiently.
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Dave Neary

Community Architect, Red Hat
Dave Neary is a community architect with the Open Source Program Office at Red Hat. He has a long and storied history as an open source developer and community manager. Recently, he has worked on Eclipse Che, a cloud native integrated development environment, and industry initiatives... Read More →

Monday October 28, 2019 15:15 - 15:50
Rhone 3A
  Growing & Sustaining OS Communities
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