[Community] OpenPhoenux Logo contest - Decision

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

Am 21.01.2013 um 13:11 schrieb francesco.devita at mailoo.org:

> >Please note that the server logs indicate that Proposal 6 has been pushed through
> >anonymous TOR (got +20 votes within a time frame of 30 minutes from anonymizers)
> >and Proposal 10 has got an unexpected high number of votes from Italy.
> >Then we had some "votes" from "webcrawler0$.kroger.com". You can imagine yourself what this means.
> >Therefore the result can not be taken as being representative but biassed.
> >Which I find a little sad since we are aiming at openness and trusting each other.
> 
> And because P10 is mine the above public statement involves me directly.
> I know for sure that there were 6 (5+1 double) votes for my proposal coming from my country and in the same day.
> I don't know about the other votes and I didn't in any manner asked for them.
> If there are in discussion the 6 afore mentioned, I really don't get it how they can be considered an "unexpected high number" on about 40 votes and on a total of 400.
> If on the contrary it's true that there is a high percentage of votes from Italy for P10, well I didn't know to have such a large base of fans (and I really doubt to have it).
> But the point is such statement, as it is, puts in discussion my good faith, and as a sincere FLOSS advocate I do not accept it.
> I hope to got the wrong message, but now I'm courious to know all the numbers and the votes/countries distribution...

It is just an observation. So let's try to figure out the figures (there is no tool to do it automatically so it has to be done by 'SELECT * WHERE ...' manually).

We got 9 votes for P10 from a domain ending in '.it'.
- 5 of these did only vote for P10 (and nothing else)
- 3 with .it domain did not vote for P10 at all
- and one did vote for P10 + others
- i.e. 66% with .it did vote for P10

If we compare with e.g. '.de' domains we have
- 26 votes
- 4 for P10 i.e. 15% with .de did vote for P10
- P6 got 5 votes coming through *.anonymizer.ccc.de - this is why I made the other comment...

If we look at all 41 votes for P10, where they come from:
1 .at
1 .ca
5 .com
2 .cz
4 .de
1 .dk
1 .edu
1 .gr
6 .it	<--- this is the second largest number in total
8 .net
2 .nl
1 .pl
1 .ru
1 .sk
6 unknown (no rDNS)

And finally looking at those with 'tor' in the domain name we have
- 26 votes
- 12 thereof just vote for P6 (and nothing else)
- only 2 of them don't vote for P6

So this is just an observation (not an accusation) from which I have learned to
doubt results of online polls even more than before... This is my key learning.

But I think we should not worry too much about it. There haven't been clear
rules about double voting so the result is simply as it is.

> Sorry for the troubles, applause to the contest winner, and goog luck at FOSDEM.
> Joif

Thanks again for your proposal, which was amongst my personal 3 favourites.

And I think at least one guy proposed to ask to use your basic design for something
else (hope he reads it here and contacts you directly).

BR,
Nikolaus