FESCo/FPB vote counting

[Christopher Aillon]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:57:50AM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 10:21 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> > Where are the numbers for the most recent elections?
>> Here's the numbers for the last election.
>> 
>> 107 Voters
> 
> 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?

Well, I for one didn't even realize the election took place until I 
found out that I won a seat -- by way of my getting subscribed to the 
list.  Maybe I missed these FESCo voting announcements but I saw at 
least 3 or 4 announcements for the board election.  It would be 
interesting to see if the board election had better turnout.  If so, I'd 
say we ought to simply make sure people know there's an election going 
on.  And advertise election dates EARLY.