On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why do you want to know about the percentage of Red Hat voters vs. > community? > > 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. You have stated an ideal, but its not the current reality. It shouldn't matter... but it does...deep down in people's brains the distinction matters. The fact is Mike's initial comment very much grounded in the distinction between inside Red Hat and outside. In fact we've made quite a big deal that we have more external contributors then red hat contributors. We continue to draw a distinction between these groups in our efforts to point out there's no distinction. With that in mind I want a picture of the breakdown between redhat and non-redhat voters so I can know if we have done an appropriate job communicating the importance of the board elections out into the external community. If there is a significant voting imbalance, we find it, then we take steps to make that identified imbalance go away next time by getting feedback from that segment of the community sooner rather than later. -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
