----- Original Message ----- > On 29 June 2015 at 07:42, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Alexander Ploumistos > > <alex.ploumistos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Haïkel <hguemar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> Another possibility is that people didn't find any candidate to their > >>> taste. > >>> I suggest adding a None option too. > >>> Though it won't change results, it will give us metrics to measure that. > >> > >> > >> I'd say that a vote of "0" next to each name, pretty much counts as > >> "none". > > > > Yes, but those results are not visible at all because of the method of > > voting we use. The suggestion of a None option would be a bit more > > clear in terms of conveying that voter's opinion. > > > > We could also change the voting method. The new elections code allows > for multiple ways to vote. > > In the past the following things are usually done during elections: > > 1) Various blog posts by candidates and various people that an > election is occurring. > 2) Emails during the election period reminding people there is an election. > > If these things happened this time, I missed them completely. One thing - I let Jan to run elections this time and I tried to help him as much as possible but I didn't want to interfere too much with elections as I was considering to run too (but in the end, I decided to skip this round as I'm moving to my new responsibilities within Red Hat and it would be just too much). You all know, how hard is to find volunteers and help them in the beginning and I think Jan did a good job for the his first time. I was following announcements, he even consulted some mails with me. I can see an issue with email sent ahead and not on the opening day. But otherwise I think elections were covered pretty well - we spammed Fedora Magazine with interviews and almost crashed it... There were several announcements going to the lists. To be honest, I'd expect much more from candidates. We always encouraged them to run campaign (from the time we switched from town halls to it)... Unfortunately there were conflicting events that kept people busy and miss it - Summit, FUDCon, in many places start of the season of summer vacations. One idea I have is to send a notice to *all* eligible voters based on FAS account directly that elections are open as it is one of the responsibilities of having FAS account to care about who represents you. I know, some people will complain they don't want such emails/spam but it might be better than less people being informed and missing elections. And again - eligible voters should vote, it's your project! (In the Czech Republic ballot papers are distributed to every single eligible voter, so it is precedence :). So I'd like to say big thanks to Jan for running elections and covering it pretty well for the first time even it wasn't perfect. It will be next time (or you know, every time someone finds something :). Jaroslav > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
