Opinions on the election (was: Re: FESCo Election Results)

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 17:24 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Mike McGrath schrieb:
> > Below are the election results for the recent FESCo Election.  I'd
> > encourage another person to verify these results.  The cutoff line was 13.
> > Votes | Human_name | Fedora_account_id
> 
> thx for posting the results mmcgrath, thx to the infrastructure team in
> general, thx to Toshio and everybody else for programing the voting app
> and congrats to all those that got elected.
> 
> But now to the real topic of this mail: What do all of you think about
> the whole election. Was it a good idea? 
Yes.

> Or only wasted time? "Total
> Ballots: 69" (we have round about 270 people that were permitted to
> vote) looks a bit sad IMHO.
> 
No.  It sets a precedent that representative governance is the way the
Fedora Project is going to be run in the future.

> Should we do another election in the future?
yes.

>  When? Reelect half of the
> seats after FC7 (FC6 is to short)? The other half after FC8, then the
> first half again after FC9 (and so forth)?
> 
Are there going to be other Steering Comittee/Board Elections?  If the
Fedora Advisory Board starts having elections as well, it might be nice
to have less elections at the Steering Comittee level (in terms of voter
burnout).

> Anything else we should handle differently in the future?

I think Contingent Candidates should be handled a bit different as the
way we did it this time was a bit confusing.  Perhaps encourage the
candidates to throw their hat in the ring without contingencies.
Perhaps if open seats < number of non-contingent candidates put the
contingent candidates in the election and hold them to wherever they end
up in the voting; otherwise take them off the ballot entirely.

-Toshio
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