<br>Horowhenua Library Trust and a foundation specific to Koha win so long as we don't count the "Non Votes" -- the set of non completed results -- or we consider the polling a simple horse race with the winner of the first category receiving 1st place, the winner of the second category receiving 2nd place, etc.<br>
<br>Taking all the votes in total and dividing by the number of potential votes (1290 and 1806, respectively) gives this:<div><br></div><div>"Which organization
should Koha align itself with for the time being?"</div><div>
Total Votes
% of Total Votes
Horowhenua Library Trust
169
13.10%
Software in the Public Interest
129
10.00%
International
Federation of Library Associations<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>
118
9.15%
Software Freedom Conservancy
122
9.46%
None
109
8.45%
Non completed
643
49.84%<div><br></div>"Which organization
should Koha align itself with in the long term?"
Total Votes
% of Total Votes
Form a foundation specific to Koha
165
9.14%
Horowhenua Library Trust
123
6.81%
Software in the Public Interest
87
4.82%
International Federation of Library
Associations
86
4.76%
Software Freedom Conservancy
80
4.43%
Form a foundation specific to library
open source
128
7.09%
Do nothing
60
3.32%
Non completed
1077
59.63%<div><br></div><div>You see why I wondered about the "non completed" results? :-)</div><br>We have a few statisticians, and I'd like to hear from them about this. Barring that, I agree with your assessment, Ian.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>-- Ben<br><br>On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Walls, Ian <<a href="mailto:Ian.Walls@med.nyu.edu">Ian.Walls@med.nyu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> I believe, if I am interpreting the results correctly (and I qualify here that my statistics background is quite limited), that HLT is the top choice for a foundation to ally with right now, and SPI is the second choice.<br>
><br>> In the long term, forming a Koha-specific foundation is the top choice. I'm not too clear on what the second choice would be (either forming a more general open source foundation, or staying allied with HLT, perhaps?).<br>
><br>> Someone with better statistics analysis skills should probably confirm this before we start taking action, but that's what it looks like to me.<br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>><br>> Ian Walls<br>
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