FESCo/FPB vote counting

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Mike McGrath wrote:

>> That sounds very little. Aren't we more like at least four times as
>> many packagers alone? And weren't there even non-packagers admitted to
>> vote? QA/doc/managment (I hope Max was allowed to vote :) etc?
>> 
>> I don't know how many accounts were entitled to vote in total, but we
>> probably only had 20-25% of people caring to vote, which looks
>> bad [1]. How can we improve this mark?
>> 
>> [1] Some people will use the argument "everyone was happy, so no one
>>     went voting", but that's not a valid argument. If people are happy
>>     the least they could do is click on a web voting application to
>>     confirm their happyiness (which BTW is really a painless effort,
>>     credits to the authors of it, I think this was mainly Toshio).
>> 
> Its a sad thing to say but...
>
> "Most people were american, so no one went voting"
>
> I could be wrong, but I bet apathy played a roll in low voter turnout.  Or a 
> lack of knowledge about the candidates.

Don't blame me, I voted for Jef.

Seriously -- if we think that it's important to get more people to vote, 
we need to make a concerted effort.  As in, a nag script.  "We see you 
haven't voted yet!  Voting for the membership of (Fedora board / Fedora 
subproject foo) is one of your most sacred rights as a citizen of the 
Fedora nation!  It'll take two minutes, srsly.  Click here!"

--g

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