On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:40:13 -0400 (EDT) Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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!" I'm sure Toshio would gladly take patches to the voting app. It'll take two minutes, srsly. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
