Votes were received from the following people:

 Philip Powell <philip at blencathra>
 Craig Cockburn <craig at scot>
 djones at borve (David Jones)
 Alastair Dickson <adickson at stirmargrev>
 David Marsh <dm at bigfoot>
 ncf at borve (Neil Fernandez)
 merlin at A470
 daniel.toye at cableol (Daniel Toye)
 duncan at brandane (Duncan Dewar)
 Anne Jackson <amygdala at zetnet>      

No invalid votes were received.

Results were as follows:
------------------------
Vote a (I agree that there should be a formal procedure for the
        management of the scot.* hierarchy):
      9 YES
Vote b (I propose that we procede by the [SHORT/LONG/ABSTAIN] procedure):
      1 ABSTAIN
      4 LONG
      4 SHORT
Vote c (I would prefer that we establish a committee):
      1 ABSTAIN
      1 NO
      6 YES
Vote d (I would prefer that we appoint a single control person):
      3 ABSTAIN
      3 NO
      2 YES         

Method of counting:
-------------------
Votes were counted by the following script:
#! /bin/bash

for vote in a b c d
do
    echo "Vote $vote :"
    grep -1 "$vote]" CFV1 | grep '\[[A-Z]*\]' | sed 's/[^\[]*\[//' |\
        sed 's/\].*$//' | sort | uniq -c
done

Conclusions:
------------
There was a clear majority _for_ a formal procedure, and _for_ a
committee. There was no decision regarding the short/long procedure.

What we do next:
----------------
Under either procedure, we now invite nominations for a
committee. However, the vote didn't decide whether this was an interim
committee to decide committee functions, or a management
committee. However, as the person running the vote, I didn't vote
myself.

What I propose is that I now cast a vote for the short procedure, and
that we proceed immediately to invite management committee
nominations; but that if anyone feels that my casting vote is
improper, they protest immediately to me and simultaneously to both
scot.general and scot.announce. If any protest is received we delay
the committee elections and rerun the short/long vote.

How to announce that you are a candidate for committee elections
----------------------------------------------------------------

To quote from the earlier post
<http://www.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=415857648.1>

  I suggest that people who
  would like to be on the management committee should post a short
  message to scot.announce and scot.general, announcing their
  candidature. A call for votes would then be held, and following the
  outcome of the vote the committee would immediately begin by
  appointing a control person and setting up a system for accepting
  RFDs, promulgating CFVs, and posting control messages. It would
  periodically report it's procedings to scot.announce.

  The management committee would initially comprise four elected
  members; it could co-opt up to three additional people to join, either as
  technical advisors or as representatives of major news host
  administations. The committee would be obliged to accept and to
  publish RFDs suggesting changes to it's constitution.

  I propose the following timetable:

  7th December:   Close of voting, results announced, candidates may
  announce candidature
  14th December:  Close of announcements of candidature; CFV for
  elections.

-- 
simon@jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/

                        -- mens vacua in medio vacuo --