On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 13:52 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 11:21 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > 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? My personal view: People feel the board is a RH internal business, which has never represented the "people" and has never dealt with issues directly affecting people. > > Is the process working? IMO: no. In addition to what I wrote above, I found the election has been poorly communicated/promoted - Even I almost missed it. And when voting, I had difficulties in finding candidates I would want to vote for ... > Voting is one of the ways to have them feel recognized and represented. > If they didn't bother to vote, they gave up that mechanism for > representation voluntarily. I do not share this view. Low votes indicate people having not found it worth to vote or not having known about a vote. Ralf _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
