[Test-Announce] Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora Board seats

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 12/10/2012 10:35 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 02:40:54 -0500 (EST), Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> The elections for the Fedora Board, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo), and Fedora Ambassadors Steering Committee (FAmSCo) have concluded, and the results are IN! and can be seen below.
>>
> This came in as a surprise. So, once again I've missed an election, :-/
> and I've done some searching to find out why. Has there been an
> announcement and where? I've started searching in the test-announce archives:
>
> | http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test-announce/2012-November/date.html
> |
> | [Test-Announce] Fedora Board, FAmSCo, FESCo Election Season, and Fedora Board Appointment.   Robyn Bergeron
> |
> | [Test-Announce] Fedora 19 release name voting   Robyn Bergeron
>
> The "Fedora 19 release name voting" announcement is short and to the point.
> It immediately starts with the important part that "Voting ... has begun",
> then the details and direct links to the Fedora Elections System.
> This announcement has not gone unnoticed. I've taken part in that
> election.
>
> On the contrary, the announcement from Nov 7 starts with referring to
> a "nomination period", _no_ concrete dates, _no_ links to the election
> system, and a lot of text in an attempt to squeeze everything into a
> single mail. Is that the announcement I've missed or which I should
> have read more carefully?
>
> Same on devel-announce list:
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-November/date.html
>
> Could this be fixed for future elections?
> The "Fedora 19 release name voting" message is fine, in particular its
> subject is concise. The other one is a confusing mess. IMHO.
>

We also need to see how many people voted not how many ballots were cast 
or could be cast and compare it to our contributor base to effectively 
determine if we are having increase/decrease in voting.

JBG