Questions about Derby logo contest

[Jeffrey Lichtman <sw...@rcn.com>]

There was an aborted logo contest earlier this year. What happened to 
the entries? Should they be submitted to the current contest?

Also, what form will the voting take and how will a winner be 
determined? The usual way to run an election is to let every voter 
pick one candidate, and for the winner to be the one that gets the 
most votes. This system can be problematic when there are a lot of 
candidates - it's possible that no candidate will have a majority. We 
solved this in the original logo contest with a run-off election 
among the top three vote-getters (only necessary if no candidate had 
a simple majority, which happened to be the case in that election).


                        -        Jeff Lichtman
                                 swazoo@rcn.com
                                 Check out Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox at
                                 http://swazoo.com/ 

Re: Questions about Derby logo contest

["David W. Van Couvering" <Da...@Sun.COM>]

Jeffrey Lichtman wrote:
> There was an aborted logo contest earlier this year. What happened to 
> the entries? Should they be submitted to the current contest?
> 

See

http://www.nabble.com/Derby-Logo%2C-Take-Two-t2822.html#a9271

and

http://db.apache.org/derby/logo_contest.html

It looks like the person submitting needs to resubmit to the JIRA entry 
for DERBY-297, and explicitly grant a license to ASF.

I couldn't find any of the old logos, but if folks who contributed 
before can submit them again, that would be great!

> Also, what form will the voting take and how will a winner be 
> determined? The usual way to run an election is to let every voter pick 
> one candidate, and for the winner to be the one that gets the most 
> votes. This system can be problematic when there are a lot of candidates 
> - it's possible that no candidate will have a majority. We solved this 
> in the original logo contest with a run-off election among the top three 
> vote-getters (only necessary if no candidate had a simple majority, 
> which happened to be the case in that election).

Thanks for your comments.  I will send out a proposed set of rules of 
engagement in a separate email.

David

> 
> 
>                        -        Jeff Lichtman
>                                 swazoo@rcn.com
>                                 Check out Swazoo Koolak's Web Jukebox at
>                                 http://swazoo.com/