* Simon Lees
On 11/9/19 3:19 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Axel Braun
[11-08-19 10:10]: Hello Christian,
Am Freitag, 8. November 2019, 15:50:02 CET schrieb Christian Imhorst:
thank you! Then we had an electoral participation of 54%. Mmmh, not much but expected I suppose.
Vote participations are always a topics for itself...be it a political vote or a name change vote. IMO, if you have the option to vote, it is a implicit duty to do so. If you cant vote, like in many countries around the world, you will much more feel the wish to vote and influence the result. Every vote counts!
The result is that 84% of the voters want to keep openSUSE, and this is a clear vote to my understanding. So we (the board) will continue with the next steps in direction of a legal structure for the openSUSE project.
Personally I feel that the result is 'good', as openSUSE is a strong and well known brand.
while I personally want to keep the present "openSUSE" moniker, basing anything on the vote results is critically flawed as Carlos and I mentioned earlier and in related threads. Those choosing not to vote as no agreeable option was presented skews the results and no-one can determine the true wants of the community. The *only* thing you can report is that OF THE PEOPLE VOTING, 84% opted to keep openSUSE. you would get a similar and worthless result if only three poeple voted and two opted to keep the name.
While the running of this vote had some issues, I don't think any of them being handled differently would have lead to 180 more people voting or changing there vote which is around what would have been needed for it to be close. But I agree if the vote was much closer it would be hard to pull meaning out of it.
As a member of the board, I have to say I still have no idea how you expect me to interpret "abstain" or "neither". I am only really interested in the change vs no change as long as we got atleast the usual number of voters. if we were 100 or so down on what we see at board elections then yeah i'd have more questions.
to determine per cent for or another you ignore the possibility that there might be a third option (or more) which is not presented. anyone deciding neither of the presented options as desirable will not be counted as voting or interested. that skews the per cent for or against, ie: 120 vote for 50 vote against 20 abstain as no desired option presented which gives: 63% for 120/190 rather than: 71% for 120/170 to be clear, the final outcome of the vote is as I desire but may not be representative of the community as a whole. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org