Phase1 of the Board Election process[0] comes to a close at 1200 UTC
on 09 October 2008. That means after that time there will be no
additional people eligible to vote for candidates. Franchise votes
are possibly the least understood aspect of the election process, this
is even after the best efforts of the Election Committee and
Candidates. No one is to blame, it's just fact.
So let me try once more to explain what the Franchise voting is all
about. In a nutshell an openSUSE Member has the ability to grant a
registered user, but not member, the privilege to vote in the upcoming
Board Election. Why? Simplisticly it's to get more
voters/users/contributors involved in influencing how the openSUSE
project progresses. There are 2831 registered users now, but only 212
Members - so according to my bad maths that makes about 7.5% eligible
to vote. That to me isn't entirely representative of the community, so
in comes the Franchise vote, we members have the ability to increase
that voting percentage to 15%. The catch is that the users have to
have registered prior to 01 September 2008.
So how do users get the franchise? Simplist way is ask a member :)
Members will not be able to grant users a franchise if they have not
registered prior to 01Sept08 so dont try and bluff, the system knows
;) How do you find out who is a member? Simple, go to
users.opensuse.org[1] and "Browse Members[2]". From there you can get
contact details for IRC nicks, etc and try and convince them that you
are worthy.
So please if you haven't done so, go and get your franchise and help
influence openSUSE. For members that haven't given out their
franchise you can "Browse Users[3]" and find someone you recognise and
ask them if they would like a franchise vote. People this is *YOUR*
Board that is being voted in, if you don't speak up now then you'll
loose your voice until the next election!
[0] -
http://en.opensuse.org/Board_Election/2008#Phase_1:_Nomination_of_second_vo…
[1] -
https://users.opensuse.org/
[2] -
https://users.opensuse.org/membership/list
[3] -
https://users.opensuse.org/users/browse
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