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Martin Michlmayr Wins DPL

Posted by timothy on from the clean-sweep dept.

Strike writes "The votes for the new Debian Project Leader are in and the tallying is over, results here. Martin Michlmayr comes out on top, winning 4-0 going head to head against the other three candidates (with the fourth win being over "no candidate"). Last year's DPL Bdale Garbee came in 2nd, with Branden Robinson and Moshe Zadka coming in 3rd and 4th. Michlmayr's platform can be seen here."

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  1. How did he REALLY win? by Rumbler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "...Moshe's intention is to do nothing at all..."

    "...Bdale speaks of communication... community at large was not well informed at all of what was going on..."

    "...I didn't see many new thoughts in Branden's platform...he has had (pointless) arguments with virtually anyone in the project who is doing important stuff...I doubt he would be an effective leader..."

    The true secret to success... clever condescending trash talking.

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  2. Re:debian political parties vs. a national ones by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    We just talked about this in history class! This was already tried in renaissance Italy. It does not work, because people are selfish. They will try to maximize their influence by not voting fairly. For example, someone who supports Bush would be best off putting Bush first and Gore last even if Gore is their second choice. By putting Gore last, they help Bush by giving the expected second place candidate less votes.

  3. Re:Outcome by Ponty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you can install Debian, you can probably get through the ballot. Once the software/leader is in, it's all easy from there, but getting to the point where it all works is half the fun and effort in learning. :-)

  4. Re:debian political parties vs. a national ones by cymen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Immediately I'm thinking of politicians having heart attacks because well coordinated media blitzes are no longer functional! This would be awesome but definately perturbing to the general populace.

  5. My solution to that: by dark-nl · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If a programmer can't figure out whether or not it's free, then it isn't. Anything else is impractical.

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