Fedora Board election results

[Ralf Corsepius]

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 at gmail.com> 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 at gmail.com> 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