[Members] voting results board and council elections

[David Banes]

Congrats Nico.
Well done Alex on devising a neat system.
Arc, maybe next time!

Have a great weekend all,

David,


> On 24 Nov 2017, at 22:33, Arc Riley <arcriley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tonight's results are announced: 19 - 24 - 28 - 30 - 50
> 
> >>> hashlib.sha256(b'19.24.28.30.50./').hexdigest()
> 'f2507b627edc74d540e7cb747138ed7ee8e19d4458f9db5bfd3a92b5c97a9541'
> 
> So it appears Nico has won the 5th slot.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Alexander Gnauck <alex at ag-software.de> wrote:
> the ordering is in Dave's proposal:
> 
>  0  Arc Riley
>  1 Nicolas Vérité
> 
> Alex
> 
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Ashley Ward" <ash.wardly at gmail.com>
> To: "XSF Members" <members at xmpp.org>
> Sent: 23.11.2017 11:25:28
> Subject: Re: [Members] voting results board and council elections
> 
>> I think we need a process to decide whether we order the names by first or last name...
>> 
>> --
>> Ash
>> 
>>> On 23 Nov 2017, at 10:23, Alexander Gnauck <alex at ag-software.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Thanks Nÿco,
>>> 
>>> I will execute the random selection then on the next Euro Millions draw which is this Friday, November 24th 2017.
>>> 
>>> Alex
>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>> From: "Nicolas Vérité" <nicolas.verite at gmail.com>
>>> To: "XSF Members" <members at xmpp.org>
>>> Sent: 22.11.2017 22:57:28
>>> Subject: Re: [Members] voting results board and council elections
>>> 
>>>> This sounds fair, and I find it very funny.
>>>> Good luck Arc! ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Dave Cridland <dave at cridland.net> wrote:
>>>> On 22 November 2017 at 10:59, Alexander Gnauck <gnauck at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > We will resolve the tie ASAP for the 5th board position between Arc Riley
>>>> > and Nicolas Vérité.
>>>> > Recommendations for tie resolution according to RFC 3797 are welcome here on
>>>> > this list or in the XSF MUC room.
>>>> 
>>>> I think this is in line with RFC 3797:
>>>> 
>>>> 1) As random input source, I propose using the "Main Numbers" from the
>>>> Euro Millions draw of next Friday, as announced here:
>>>> https://www.euro-millions.com/results
>>>> 
>>>> 2) Each number will be arranged in ascending order, separated by dots,
>>>> and terminated by "./".
>>>> 
>>>> 3) The resultant string will be hashed according to SHA-256.
>>>> 
>>>> 4) The tied candidates will be arranged into alphabetic order (note,
>>>> in this case this may be by first or last name, it makes no
>>>> difference), to produce:
>>>> 
>>>>   Arc Riley
>>>>   Nicolas Vérité
>>>> 
>>>> 5) These will be numbered from 0. Thus Arc is denoted by 0, and Nÿco by 1.
>>>> 
>>>> 6) The last bit of the hash (or, if you prefer, the value of the hash
>>>> as a 256-bit string, modulo the length of the list) will then be used
>>>> to select the candidate.
>>>> 
>>>> As a worked example, if we take the results from yesterday:
>>>> 
>>>> 02 - 10 - 14 - 28 - 31
>>>> 
>>>> We'd form the string "02.10.14.28.31./", which I can hash with:
>>>> 
>>>> >>> h = hashlib.sha256('02.10.14.28.31./').hexdigest()
>>>> 
>>>> Producing a hash (in hex) of
>>>> 'ad2edee63a88d7b4b6109944b5222a6cce1c3719ac4d41acd0dbf8287465ace0'
>>>> 
>>>> This ending in a zero would result in Arc being selected.
>>>> 
>>>> There is absolutely no way I or anyone else can predict or influence
>>>> what this resolution will produce on Friday.
>>>> 
>>>> Dave.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Nicolas Vérité (Nÿco)
>> 
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