Fedora Board election results

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:52 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:21 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 08:40 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> > >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> > What purpose would getting the answers to those questions serve?
>> > >>
>> > >> If we are unhappy with the total voter turnout and want to do
>> > >> something about it for the next election... then making an effort to
>> > >> identify if there is an imbalance in the voting would be worthwhile.
>> > >> Did our European contributors vote in proportion to their cla numbers
>> > >> compared to the North American contributors? If not.. then we know to
>> > >> lean on Max and try to get those numbers up for the next election.  He
>> > >> should be fluent in European by now, so he shouldn't need any help
>> > >> traveling the countryside gathering voters in his wake.
>> > >
>> > > That answers the geographic question you had.  Sounds like a very sane
>> > > reason and I'm also curious as to what the results of that would be.
>> > >
>> > > Why do you want to know about the percentage of Red Hat voters vs.
>> > > community?
>> > >
>> >
>> > If the majority of people who voted are inside of RH and not out...
>> > then you have a potential bias you need to focus on the next election.
>> > Why didn't people outside of RH vote?
> My personal view: People feel the board is a RH internal business, which
> has never represented the "people" and has never dealt with issues
> directly affecting people.
>

I don't agree, but I have no idea what people you are talking about...
the proletariat people or the people working on Fedora?

>> > Is the process working?
> IMO: no.
>
> In addition to what I wrote above, I found the election has been poorly
> communicated/promoted - Even I almost missed it.
>
> And when voting, I had difficulties in finding candidates I would want
> to vote for ...
>

Ok I don't see how you could have missed it. It got sent out in
multiple mailing lists, lots of people blogged about it.. but I guess
I was more aware since I wasn't going to try and run this time because
I don't want to be overbooked.

Now for finding candidates.. you can always run yourself or find
someone you want to run and get them nominated (eg get them to want to
run).


>> Voting is one of the ways to have them feel recognized and represented.
>> If they didn't bother to vote, they gave up that mechanism for
>> representation voluntarily.
> I do not share this view. Low votes indicate people having not found it
> worth to vote or not having known about a vote.
>
> Ralf
>
>
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