-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2015-06-02 15:12, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 06/02/2015 08:24 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
All elections we held have a pretty weak voter turnout. Weak enough that it's debatable that the outcome represents the voters body opinion. Apart from that everything is fine ;-)
As Henne points out, the board election is probably the component where the inactivity is the most glaring. For members there are some "perks", one of which is to be able to vote for and the other is to be elected to the openSUSE Board. So if we have 500 members (numbers are made up because I was too lazy to look them up ;) ) and 125 vote during board elections what does that say about the other 375?
- Are they no longer active? - Are they active contributors but do not care about the board and thus our project governance?
I can tell you my case: I simply do not know the candidates. Few of the names are familiar to me. This time I was reading their pages, which is a long process for me, when election timed out and I finally couldn't vote.
The same problem manifests itself for oSC. If we have 500 members and we cannot motivate at least 1/2 of the membership to get their butts off the couch and show up at oSC what does that mean?
Again, I can tell you my case: it is quite far from my place of residence, and travel is expensive. I can't afford it. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlVtrm4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WrswCgle4uz7eG03wUeAKBJ3B9P18M rLUAnjEnEGZBZ9B2bD7PKSm42++hwhTG =6zbN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org