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

[Robyn Bergeron]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>
> To: test at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 3:47:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Test-Announce] Election Results for FAmSCo, FESCo, and Fedora	Board seats
> 
> 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.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Voting_count_history <-- I just made this. It's still a bit rough, and doesn't compare with contributor base (this could be difficult to do), but gets a start on putting numbers out there in more of a side-by-side fashion. 

> 
> JBG
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