Fedora Board election results

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 12:04 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >> > IMHO, a voter's employer just doesn't matter.
> >> >
> >>
> >> It does if people outside of RH feel they are not going to be
> >> recognized or represented and thus give up on the system.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> 
> That argument is logically valid but humans are not logical. If people
> feel that voting is not going to make a difference they will have no
> incentive to continue with the process. 

Which is why you ask the community, at large, "Why didn't you vote?"

Again, targeting employer specific groups is _pointless_.  We only have
real data for 3 employers, that data isn't even fully accurate, and you
can't hardly target an employer demographic of "unknown" any better than
you can the community as a whole.

> Or go for mandatory voting with a 'Non-of-the-above' category if
> people aren't happy with any of the candidates.

We could do that if we had a timeout on ballots.  But it really wouldn't
do anything to help.  We can't wait until everyone manually votes or the
vote would never end.

josh