[Design-team] Fedora 37 wallpaper voting is coming soon - read to get access to voting

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi everyone!

We've been using LimeSurvey for a while to do the default Fedora wallpaper
/ background inspiration vote each release. LimeSurvey is overly
complicated, has a confusing UI, and is generally not amazing, despite
being open source.

I've been looking at some alternatives to make this whole thing easier,
with the requirement that the tool be open source. We already have a
Discourse (it is open source) deployment at discussions.fedoraproject.org,
so, I took a look at the Discourse polling feature and it seems like it
will meet our requirements nicely:

- It has visually-based polling so we can put pictures next to each option
if needed for the vote instead of making people click through elsewhere
- It lets us limit the vote to members of specific discourse groups
- It's pretty simple and seems less prone to error than limesurvey

So we are looking at potentially using it for the F37 vote.

Where you come in :

We currently have 81 members in the designteam group in the Fedora Accounts
System (FAS):
https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/group/designteam/

Since Discourse doesn't sync up with FAS, I had to manually add everyone
from the FAS group into the new Discourse design team group, which gives us
25 members:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/g/design

I know 99% of the folks who are in the designteam group in FAS and I
believe the majority have not been active in years (I recognize many as
past interns from various programs.) I contacted everyone I knew to still
be active and most at this point have logging into discussions.fpo to get
their account set up and have been added to the discourse group.

For the rest of the 81 - 25 folks not in the group.... I might do a mass
email blast. Usually we email everyone each release and have them click on
a "remove me" link if they don't want to be listed anymore. I think since
we've done that for a couple years now, what we might want to do this time
is have a "keep me" link and if they don't click it they get removed. To be
honest, the penalty is quite low if we accidentally remove someone - it
doesn't delete their FAS account or anything just their group membership,
and that takes 5 seconds to reinstate if they missed the emails or whatever.

So if you would like to make sure you have the ability to vote in the
Fedora 37 wallpaper vote and are in the FAS group at
https://accounts.fedoraproject.org/group/designteam/ but not in the
Discourse group at https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/g/design - please
log in at https://discussions.fedoraproject.org with your Fedora / FAS
account, then send me an email or ping me in matrix (
https://matrix.to/#/#design:fedoraproject.org) and I can add you to the
discourse group.

Thanks for reading :)

Le meas,
~m