Subject: Re: Fedora Board election results
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.advisory-board
Date: 2008-06-24 18:21:56 GMT (1 year, 1 week, 2 days, 17 hours and 57 minutes ago)
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Josh Boyer wrote: >> With that in mind I want a picture of the breakdown between redhat and >> non-redhat voters so I can know if we have done an appropriate job >> communicating the importance of the board elections out into the >> external community. > > Just assume we haven't done an appropriate job. With a 6% voter > turnout, we have failed regardless. Really? Why? Why is a 6% turnout necessarily a failure? IMHO, a properly functioning governance body *should* be so effective that no one cares much either way when it comes time to replace the membership. >From my perspective, low turnout means low dissatisfaction. All other indicators seem to point to continued success for Fedora and its contributors. If there were endemic problems to the Fedora project that people wanted to fix, well, then, there's a mechanism for the disaffected to create change. If no one feels compelled to use that mechanism, is it necessarily a bad thing? I myself almost didn't vote. Why? Because I liked the entire slate of candidates. In the end, I did vote, and I voted entirely for non-RH candidates on principle... but I firmly believe that everyone elected will do a great job, and I firmly believe that everyone not elected would also have done a great job. --g