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Bdale Garbee elected Debian Project Leader

Posted by michael on from the hardly-any-hanging-chad dept.

Daniel Stone writes "In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale! And no CmdrTaco, the debs are not (quite) yet ready, but they *are* very close." The elections page has more information.

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  1. Platform by rubinson · · Score: 5, Informative

    His platform makes a good read: http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/platforms/bdale

  2. Bdale... by xcomputer_man · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...for the perplexed, is actually a short form of "Barksdale", and is pronounced as "Bee-Dale".

    I like interesting names like that.

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    Am I a hipster-doofus?
  3. Re:Debian's too political by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...they used proportional representation, I always thought.

    Actually, they used Condorcet's method, which is superior to all other single-winner voting methods (trust the Debian project to get something like this right!). In any case, *no* voting method which yields a single-winner can be a form of proportional representation.

    For an explanation of Debian's excellent method of choosing Project Leaders, see:

    http://www.electionmethods.org/CondorcetEx.htm

    Alex Berkman