On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 4:56 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thanks for the clarification. Do you have any sense of how this may > have affected voting numbers compared to previous years? > The impact seems to be fairly small, if it exists at all. The number of voters for F30 was down a little bit from F29, but there were also fewer candidates (the Council election, in particular, was uncontested). Regular announcements and reminders were sent on the council-discuss, devel/devel-announce, and mindshare mailing lists, and the Community Blog post was "sticky" for the duration of the voting period. I suspect — though I have no way of confirming — that the number of people who would vote and only subscribe to the announce list is relatively small. Of course, that doesn't mean they shouldn't have the opportunity to vote. As Kevin said, we've taken steps to prevent this from happening in future elections. I encourage everyone who has in an interest in the internal workings of the community to follow the Community Blog[1]. In addition to announcements of elections, we also publish proposed changes to council policies, technical and process posts from teams and contributors, and a weekly summary of change proposals/schedule/etc. The Community Blog is a low traffic (generally 1 or fewer posts per day) way to keep up with Fedora. If you have feedback on the Community Blog, we'd be happy to hear from you on Discussion[2]. As a long-time Fedora contributor, I understand how important the elections are to making sure the community is well-represented. If you ever have questions or concerns, I'm happy to discuss them with you on- or off-list, or in the weekly FPgM office hours on IRC[3]. [1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/ [2] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/tags/c/project/commops/commblog [3] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/council/#m9527 -- Ben Cotton He / Him / His Fedora Program Manager Red Hat TZ=America/Indiana/Indianapolis _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
