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

[Robyn Bergeron]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Robinson" <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> To: "For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:56:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Test-Announce] Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora	Board seats
> 
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:47 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
> <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Isn't the number of ballets cast the same as the amount of people
> voting? You then multiply the amount ballets cast against the range
> voting (number of candidates essentially) to get the total number of
> votes available.

Yes, # of ballots cast == number of people who voted in an election.

> 
> Peter
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