[Ambassadors] Runoff election for Board seat has begun.

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:56 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  Be aware though
>>> that the eligible voters are not the same for each governance body so
>>> this could be a little tricky.
>>
>>
>> Arguably eligible voters and nominees should always be the same for each
>> governance body as in anyone from within the community can run for anything
>> and vote on anything ( One thing I think should be fixed in the election
>> process ).
>
> That doesn't make any sense, really (though I think with the recent
> FESCo and FAMSCo changes, it might for now - I think everyone has
> moved to CLA+1)

The Board is only CLA but that is a minor difference at this point.
But more important currently is that FESCo and FAmSCo both have
severely restricted eligibility for nominees that seem intuitively
reasonable.

> If you're not an Ambassador, for example, what concern is it of yours
> how that group is governed (though since FAMSco is managing budget
> these days, I think that's why they relaxed their eligibility
> requirement, though not being directly involved I can't say) or who
> does it? I admit that you could just not vote in that election if it's
> not of concern to you, however there's a process involved in becoming
> an Ambassador (for example, I'm picking on them because they most
> recently had the "only members of our group can vote" policy) and if
> you haven't completed that process, what say should you have in the
> governance of that group? (again, the criteria for FAMSCo elections
> have been relaxed, primarily because they *can* affect other groups in
> the project with monetary decisions).

I don't think managing budget had anything to do with this. The FAmSCo
budget is for marketing and promoting Fedora which is really mostly
ambassador business. Most of those activities are done by ambassadors.
I think the decision to open voting was done more because ambassadors
represent the entire Fedora Project in public and the entire Fedora
Project should have some say in that since they are being represented.

John