On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

I've always thought of it as a general gauge of community interest in
the topic, which hopefully corresponds to the interest of the people
going. We could try simply messaging that better — and by "we", I
definitely include myself, because I know I've said things like
"voting is open everyone come vote, and hope to see you there".

While conceptually that works, "I got all my friends to vote for me" isn't a good gauge of overall interest. This is also partly why the final schedule is 99% community vote with 1% room for something like if not enough people voted on hearing the Fedora Council get together, but we know that's still important, we put it on the schedule anyway.