On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 23:22 +0000, joseph seddon wrote:
Me, Geni and andrew will discuss what options we have. We will then draw up the final election methods. Clear them with the community, then run the election. Unless we can get access to the software used for the foundation board elections, it will most likely be run via email.
Getting BoardVote isn't hard. It's just on Mediawiki's SVN. The first thing is upgrading it from using BotQuery (query.php) which has been disabled on Wikimedia's wiki to the current api.php (a task which is relatively simple).
You can choose to merge back some of the old code using SVN to use the old voting method (A maximum of X endorsement out of all possible candidates, first many past the post) if you don't want to use Schulze method.
The problem you will have is hosting it on a MediaWiki installation somewhere, and ensuring those and only those you want to be able to vote is able to vote, either each with local accounts on said MediaWiki installation, or get WMF's dev to redirect anyone going to *.wiki*edia.org/wiki/BoardVote to this wiki so the software can query WMF's wiki for account information.
KTC