On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Which is why you ask the community, at large, "Why didn't you vote?" Here are two reasons. I find the whole self-nomination process distasteful. While I understand this is normal in some cultures it is very alien to other cultures. It seems obvious to me that there are competent and willing members who will not self-nominate and I don't understand why Fedora insists they be excluded from the process. I would prefer there be a way for community members to nominate quality people they know and those nominated in this way could accept or decline such a nomination. Others could nominate themselves if they wish to. Range voting is another aspect of the process I find discouraging in general. Suppose I know 3 of 10 candidates personally (at least I've had direct interactions with a small subset of the candidates). The other 7 candidates I perhaps know some by reputation and don't know some at all. By what rational process am I supposed to assign votes to the entire slate of candidates? Honestly I feel like what my vote ends up being is fairly random data and is as likely to distort the process to the detriment of some candidate I don't know and don't want to penalize as it is to elect the candidates I might prefer. So my choice to not vote was not made out of contentment with current leadership, not made out of apathy, not made out of being happy with the entire slate of candidates, but rather it was not made out of frustration with the voting process. John _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
