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The board of the Purpose Source Association asks the people who build and run the software for their advice. The board asks, they answer, and the answers are advice: the board decides, and publishes its answer next to the result.

No vote is shown on this copy of the site

This copy of the site was built from data that does not carry the votes. Each vote the board opens is listed here from the data the platform publishes: what it asks and of whom, and once it closes, its result and the answer of the board.

How a vote works

  • Who is asked. Each vote says whom it asks: people who contribute to a registered project, people who run one, or both. Who is asked is worked out once, when the vote opens, by a rule whose numbers each vote publishes, and each person counts once. Anyone asked can step out with "Don't ask me". Staff and board members do not answer: they ask.
  • Where people answer. In the Voting tab of their dashboard, until the vote closes. Until then they can change or withdraw an answer.
  • What is published. The questions, roughly how many were asked, how many answered, the totals per answer, and the answer of the board. Any number under 5 shows as "fewer than 5", and counts that could reveal how someone answered are left out. No name, login or written answer is published.
  • What the board does with it. A result is advice only: the board decides, and publishes its answer beside the result.

What is kept about the people asked, and for how long, is in section 9 of the privacy notice.