Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 06/09/2015 03:08 PM, Chuck Payne wrote:
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.
Too long. How about the (in)famous 3minute "elevator pitch" ? 15minutes is too much about someone I ought to have a minimum impression of already. If I don't know the person at all, I'm highly unlikely to vote for him/her anyway. ("know" = have seen/met on the mailing list several times over the years).
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?
Yes, it probably is. The openSUSE board election is not important enough for me to schedule a daily 10min in my calendar :-) The voting process should be over in 30 minutes - I look at the candidates, ignore the ones I don't know, read the profiles of those I do know, and by then I will have an idea how I will vote. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org