Fedora Board election results

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> 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