-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/09/2015 03:08 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
I can't reply to the email because it bonuses all my e-mail, what sucks is it only openSUSE mailing, I am on 40 linux/user group mailing list, but I wanted to input this
Please to we really have to regurgitate this: http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/How-To-Send-A-Message-In-Plain-Te xt-From-Gmail.htm Set gmail to send text messages instead of html and voila all is well.
Everyone,
I am still active,
Thanks
and I didn't vote because of time.
Fair enough, but I'd like to understand the time factor in more detail. Let me make some rough estimates and assumptions to start the conversation and then people can elaborate where my estimations are off the wall. Hopefully we can learn from this process how we can make the voting and campaigning process more time friendly. On average we have lets maybe 3 or 4 people running for positions on the board. However to tend more towards the higher end lets assume we have 10 candidates for this rough estimation. Given that one wants to make an educated decision it is probably fair to say that a voter wants to read the information candidates make available about themselves, e-mail and platform page. For the most part this is usually relatively short, thus lets estimate that it will take about 15 minutes to read through the information. With 10 candidates that would be a time investment of 2.5 hours. For arguments sake one could say that it takes 1/2 hour to read about each candidate which then amount to a 5 hour time investment. From beginning to end our campaigning plus voting time period is probably on the order of 4 weeks or more. With the basic assumptions above it is reasonably straight forward to calculate that the time investment is roughly 5 to 6 minutes a day over the voting/campaigning period, or double that if we assume it takes 30 minutes to read about each candidate. The voting process itself is also no more than a 5 minute affair. Thus my question is, is it too much for members to spend 5 or 10 minutes a day over a period of 4 weeks to figure out who the member thinks should be on the board? So, lets see how this estimation holds up. Maybe I am way off and trying to decide turns out to be a big time sink for people. That would possibly warrant a change in approach. Maybe candidates need to have a podcast as their platform so people can listen to it in the cars or whenever reading and typing is not an option.
I don't like this
What do you mean with "this"? You do not like - - the idea of monitoring general activity - - checking who votes - - sending automated e-mails to perceived inactive members
because I think you are going to remove some people that are working but not vocal like me.
Well the original proposal from Michal has a very simple "we made a mistake" reinstatement option, thus getting back into the pool of voters is a short e-mail away.
I take care of the Facebook pages and I go around Atlanta, GA talking about openSUSE.
Thanks you for your efforts. Later, Robert - -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Public Cloud Architect LINUX rjschwei@suse.com IRC: robjo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVd370AAoJEE4FgL32d2Uk+rgH/342Tp4zwRjsHAYYFQxo6gQR fvlm4Q6nw3xa9q3adDuR/A5BZKaUDjuIbd1i9xZcVDrV8BOv6Vw7oR+h1gkNveH1 C8mOojfB3A33JpHiv7biZCEVnpYddhmOEOP09XJX+3YtKfXOXACWXcynDv1TYt7f F88AxVwtSLXxsj5wxJ2thqzbkzJg+vC38lt2WuFQOmfbHM5YfFtlZaJ3kMr0q9Pb fOHn6FSzNmgRt2qRVJ86gzSdQEbelA2oTjcbdLBSbEtY1pTBM6qJ8a1EXy2mEb3Q rPpXc6QRWrqCpmcWXU3Mr5odOpyZFYYYfhDnJLhERTPDJwfHAo6mL/oIQw4fqCA= =J0YC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org