[Ambassadors] Runoff election for Board seat has begun.

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:13 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/13/2012 01:10 AM, Clint Savage wrote:
>>
>> There is an election committee in a sense. The folks that set the
>> rules for the elections are the folks voted into the various
>> committees. I was involved in the recent changes to the FAmSCo
>> election rules and we did do that by committee. Again, the point here
>> is that if you voted someone in, you essentially trust them to perform
>> these actions to make sure the work is getting done. I am happy with
>> the results we've seen in the changes, though I do wish more people
>> would vote as well.
>
>
> Arguably it would be better to just have a single dedicated "election
> committee" for the project in whole thus eliminate any differences in
> governing body's voting process we currently have and might have in the
> future to smooth the election process and the learning curve that goes with
> it for the nominees and the voters.

As a multi-term election wrangler I want to be clear that the election
wrangler organizes the election and coordinates with all the concerned
parties but does not set election rules. The election rules are set by
each governance body to suit their needs.

I don't know that we would want to organize committee rules from some
other committee although I wouldn't mind seeing a group of concerned
Fedora folks work on the elections as a group. The more hands and
ideas the better.

> For example then we could consolidating the voting process into a single
> process instead of having users having select and to vote individually for
> each governing body.
>
> As in user logs into vote *onetime* and is presented with a voting card to
> elect *all* the nominees for *all* governing body's which of course would be
> separated sections as in something like..

This would be a voting app change and if someone is interested in
doing that work I doubt anyone would object to it. Be aware though
that the eligible voters are not the same for each governance body so
this could be a little tricky.

> [Fedora Project Board]
> ( list of nominees)
> Joe    [0]
> John  [0]
> Mary [0]
> etc..
>
> [FESCO]
> ( list of nominees)
> Siri             [0]
> Robertino  [0]
> Martines    [0]
> etc..
>
> [FamSCo]
> ( list of nominees)
> Lisa       [0]
> Robert  [0]
> Mike      [0]
> etc..
>
> The above would simplified the process and more likely than not raise
> awareness and participation in voting for another governing body in the
> community.
>
> People that dont "care" or otherwise dont want to participate in voting for
> any of the governing body's being presented to them would just leave the
> default [0] for the nominees in the relevant section unchanged when
> submitting the vote.
>
> Of course participation should be measured and compared to previous
> participation in the project should this be implemented.

I think it would be more convenient for those who do participate and
even if it didn't increase participation I think it is a pretty good
idea anyway. I am not sure how hard it might be to change the voting
app to accommodate it though.

John