response below<br />
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> ----- Original message ----- <br />
> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary@maemo.org><br />
> To: "List for community development" <maemo-community@maemo.org><br />
> Subject: Belated survey results<br />
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:12:33 +0100<br />
> <br />
> <br />
> Hi all,<br />
> <br />
> The survey for the special characters on your keyboard finished last<br />
> week. After the election, looking at the votes, there were some<br />
> particularities which made generating useful results a little tricky:<br />
> <br />
> * '(' got by far the most votes, and ')' came 8th or 9th on first<br />
> preferences - but got by far the most 2nd preferences. It was clear many<br />
> people voted '(' and ')' 1 and 2 in that order<br />
> * Some characters got a large number of first preference votes, but<br />
> almost no follow-on preferences (Euro, pound and pipe)<br />
> * There is no election - so deciding how many seats to allocate for a<br />
> transferable vote was nonsensical at worst, useless at best.<br />
> <br />
> So - exceptionally, for the survey, I decided to use the Borda count.<br />
> This gives a good approximation of the order of preference people have.<br />
> <br />
> Here's how it works: With 14 candidates, a number 1 preference is worth<br />
> 13 points, a number 2 is worth 12 points, and so on - a number 14 or no<br />
> vote at all are both worth 0. By adding the number of points across all<br />
> ballots, we get a good idea of who appeared higher on the preferences.<br />
> <br />
> Without further ado, here are the results:<br />
> <br />
> http://maemo.org/vote/results.php?election_id=8<br />
> <br />
> In order of preference:<br />
> <br />
> Char Score<br />
> '(' 13673<br />
> ')' 12807<br />
> '&' 10602<br />
> '=' 10025<br />
> '_' 8824<br />
> '$' 8604<br />
> '<' 8358<br />
> '>' 8335<br />
> '|' 8267<br />
> '%' 7683<br />
> '\' 6658<br />
> '~' 6375<br />
> '€' 4648<br />
> '£' 2165<br />
> <br />
> The results need to be taken with a pinch of salt - and perhaps examined<br />
> more closely. There was no residency information which might have shown<br />
> how important the pound sign is to UK residents, or the euro sign to<br />
> (other) EU residents.<br />
> <br />
> You can download the votes and play with them yourself at<br />
> http://maemo.org/vote/blt.php?election_id=8 and read about reproducing<br />
> the results at<br />
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_team/Generating_election_results<br />
> <br />
> Cheers,<br />
> Dave.<br />
> <br />
> --<br />
> maemo.org docsmaster<br />
> Email: dneary@maemo.org<br />
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Thanks for the update Dave.<br />
<br />
It's just a shame there is no universal "currency" character.  Such a think could be inked onto a single key, and software language/region settings could be used to determine the default character produced when it was pressed.  Alternate currency characters could then be produced by key cycling, combo presses or somesuch.<br />
<br />
Eh, probably too complicated...<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana"><span><strong>Randall (Randy) Arnold</strong><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600">maemo.org community council</span><br />
</span></span><a href="http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana">http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com/</span></a><br />
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