Hi Raymond, Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2012, 10:36:10 schrieb Raymond Wooninck:
Hi Greg,
On Thursday 20 December 2012 14:53:11 Greg Freemyer wrote:
Also, am I the only one bothered by winners having less than 50%? If so, we can leave it as it is.
What concerns me more is that the number of members voting is going down drastically.
In 2010 we had 41.2% of the members voting In 2011 we had 40.8% of the members voting In 2012 we had 29.2% of the members voting.
This year we lost almost 12% of our voting members. The question is why ?
For me, this is also a very serious question.
According to c.o.o, we have 534 Community Members. One can ask if these are all active members, but it seems that either the number of our active members is shrinking, members are somehow fed up with the election process or that this year despite the big number of candidates members rather not vote as that it is not possible to cast blank votes (no candidate).
At first we should try to ask the nonvoter wy they didn´t vote.. Second: At the same way the openSUSE Membership officials team checks the contributions to the openSUSE project before selecting someone to be a member, they should check the members again. Than we get the answer if the number of contributers is shrinking or if some members don´t contribure anymore. We had this dicussion already.
So before we change the Election model into something else (and I would appreciate if we could also have a look at voting models that are used in Europe/Asia and not only basing ourselves on American models), we should improve the current election process to make sure that we are giving all possible choices to our members so that we can see an increase in the voting members. If the majority of the members would cast a blank vote, then this would also be a strong signal that none of the candidates is found suitable.
For me the voting model is OK. We are not pliticians. Therefore the rules should stay simple. Best regards Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org