Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (301 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pascal Bleser wrote:

> Actually, Marco and I discussed this on IRC, and apparently
> there is quite some room for misunderstandings (which is
> inherent to communication ;)).
>
> So, I would like to clarify a few things, at least from my
> personal perspective and the position I will have on the board
> regarding this matter:
>
> - it would be quite helpful for a few things to have such a
>   mechanism ("non voting members", or maybe a better term) in
>   order to have meaningful numbers and stats about elections, 

Don't we already have that?  I could be wrong, but it seems we can just
count who voted and who didn't?  

> - a simple email to the membership team must be sufficient to
>   be able to vote again, to "reactivate" the access to the
>   voting platform, so to say

When I saw that proposal it sounded a little odd - "when you don't vote,
we'll take your right to vote away".  I don't think there is anything
gained here at all - if anything, we might well lose some people who
would be peed off having to re-apply for voting status. 

> We just want to find a better way to run the elections and have
> more meaningful numbers in terms of "active and sustained
> contributors".

The latter is an altogether different topic, really. Such numbers would
no doubt be useful for PR, gauging the quality or strength of the
community etcetera, but are they also key to managing our membership
database? 



-- 
Per Jessen, Zürich (-5.0°C)

--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@xxxxxxxxxxxx