On 12 February 2017 at 21:17, Aleksa Sarai
You need to login with your connect.opensuse.org credentials, you can choose from two candidates and you have to vote for two candidates - of course you can only vote if you are openSUSE member [2][3].
While it's a bit late for this discussion, maybe requiring people to log in in order to vote is a bad idea? The way KDE and the OCI do it is by sending every voting member a unique link they can use to vote, and there's a system in place to verify that your vote was entered correctly. Your identity and the vote you cast are not correlated at all by this system.
Cornell University even has a free (as in freedom and price) implementation of the above service called CIVS[1].
connect.opensuse.org does not do this, and personally I question the practical usefulness of connect.o.o. Aside from voting what _practical_ purpose is it solving? Registration to become a board member doesn't need to have a full-fledged "social network"...
[1]: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/
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I agree When connect.opensuse.org's voting became untrustable and the election halted, Martin with assistance of the Board, evaluated a number of potential solutions. We all liked the idea of emailing members a one-time use link to let them vote without needing to login. This is why my earlier announcements on the topic included advice to get everyone to refresh their contact emails in connect.opensuse.org. As we're under time pressure to institute a new board ASAP, we looked at hosted solutions like SurveyMonkey. While they 'worked', they also had a high rate of sending those emails into spam folders. This made the choice unfeasible for this election. And so Michal hacked together this stop gap solution. It's dirty, it's nasty, but it works and we can trust it (with the code in github even), but I do not consider it to be a permanent solution. connect.opensuse.org and all of the Projects other infrastructure issues need to be fixed. For voting and our membership approval/database I think we're all open to the idea of totally replacing connect.opensuse.org Some people may still like it or something similar for some kind of 'openSUSE social network', but personally I'm not convinced we need that, where as I absolutely know we need a voting platform & membership database ;) (unless we were to change the way the Project is set up..but that would require a vote..which means we need a voting platform & membership database to decide if we still need it or not ;)) Would you be willing to work with the Board and the openSUSE Heroes to help get CIVS or something similar (eg. Helios) up and running by the end of this calendar year? Do you have any ideas for the membership approval process also? These two above questions are not just for Aleksa..anyone can help, and we'll appreciate it, please :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org