On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx> 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? Is the process working? Do people not feel franchised? > Or, put another way, what difference does that distinction make? Should > we get the same data for Dell and IBM (as they have separate CLAs like > Red Hat)? > > IMHO, a voter's employer just doesn't matter. > It does if people outside of RH feel they are not going to be recognized or represented and thus give up on the system. > josh > > _______________________________________________ > fedora-advisory-board mailing list > fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
