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If there is interest, in March or April (but not February) I could
give a presentation titled:<br>
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"VoteFair ranking: Math-based voting power for the 99%"<br>
<br>
Note that Voting::VoteFairRanking is a Perl CPAN module that I
uploaded some weeks ago -- after 20 years of development.<br>
<br>
I'm already giving this presentation to the Westside Proggers group
on January 26 (see Calagator for details), but I could repeat it, or
a variation of it, for the PDX Perl Mongers group.<br>
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Here is the presentation description: "Just-released open-source
software that implements VoteFair ranking is now available to help
us reach higher levels of voting fairness. You do voting when you
click on Google search results, and you use voting results when you
view the star rating of an Amazon product. Now learn how voting
really works, how it is usually miscalculated -- intentionally in
the case of elections -- and how it can be done to fully extract the
wisdom in a group. Learn the math behind the puppet strings that
connect politicians to the biggest campaign contributors. (Partial
spoiler: The biggest unfairness is hidden in primary elections.)
Also learn the math that eventually will cut those puppet strings.
Along the way you will learn that there are different kinds of
popularity."
<p>FYI, I'm the author of <em>The Creative Problem Solver's Toolbox</em>
and <em>Ending The Hidden Unfairness In U.S. Elections</em>, the
developer of the Dashrep programming language, and the developer
of the software negotiation tool at <a
href="http://www.NegotiationTool.com">www.NegotiationTool.com</a>.<br>
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<p>If there is a preference for a shorter talk, I could give a
presentation about the Dashrep language I created. It's a
text-manipulation language, with details at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.Dashrep.org">www.Dashrep.org</a>. The
CPAN module Language::Dashrep is the engine that does the
translation.<br>
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<p>BTW, Eric Wilhelm knows who I am.<br>
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<p>Richard Fobes<br>
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