RE: [wss] automated online polling/voting tool

A few additional points...

 

1.   
I believe that each individual must register with
evite.com in order to respond. Hopefully, malicious impersonation would not be
a problem.

2.   
If folks don't want to register with evite,
the online poll could be supplemented by responses to the dist list.

3.   
For close and important evite votes, someone might
need to correlate the respondents with the TC voting membership.  It's
probably not that hard to do, but could become tedious.

 

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-----Original Message-----

From: Jeff Hodges [mailto:] 

Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 11:51 AM

To: OASIS wsstc

Subject: [wss] automated online polling/voting tool

 

We found in the SSTC that using an automated online polling/voting tool
was

immensely useful for coordinating events. It freed up concall time and

increased efficiency. 

 

The tool we used was http://www.evite.com/.

 

Here's one of our polls...

 

  http://www.evite.com/schedule/view?event=DCGPLFBMPPRVQVEVNBRM

 

 

 

The nominal methodology we used to, eg, schedule a face-to-face was..

 

1. issue an evite poll on which dates to have the f2f. eg include
several

combinations of weeks & days in the poll.

 

 

2. issue an evite poll for who will attend the f2f

 

An added bennefit was that it kept voting-message-storms off of the
sstc list. 

 

 

We also used evite to pick the name for what we were working on. I.e.
we

decided on "SAML" from the various alternatives via evite. 

 

 

There may be alternatives to evite. A quick google search turns up this
one..

 

  http://www.meetingwizard.org/meetings/evite.cfm

 

..and it may well be a reasonable alternative. 

 

 

In any case, I can attest having personally coordinated a few F2Fs that
it is

~very much~ a win to use a tool such as evite. 

 

Also, AFAIK, no one complained about any marked increase in spam as a
result of

using this service. 

 

hope this helps,

 

JeffH

 

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