FESCO Elections - June 2015 - Results

[Parag Nemade]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Jan Kurik <jkurik at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <
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> > Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 1:00:05 PM
> > Subject: Re: FESCO Elections - June 2015 - Results
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Jan Kurik <jkurik at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Greetings, all!
> > >
> > > The elections for FESCo - June 2015 have concluded, and the results
> > > are shown below.
> > >
> > > FESCo is electing 4 seats this time.
> > > A total of 90 ballots were cast, meaning a candidate
> > > could accumulate up to 540 votes (90 * 6).
> >
> > 90 ballots?  I believe that is one of the all time low records on voter
> > turnout.
>
> We already had a brief discussion with pingou this morning (UTC) on this
> topic.
> Pingou has created a nice post on this:
> http://blog.pingoured.fr/index.php?post/2015/06/29/FESCo-vote-history
>
>
> I am not sure what caused such a low number of voters. Here are some
> thoughts/areas what we can possibly be improved:
>
> * Better timing
>   -- I do not think this is the case as I am not aware of any big event
> which possibly limited people to vote.
>
> * Prolongation of voting period
>   -- For the last two Elections we had one week voting period only. In the
> past we typically had two weeks voting period. Possibly some people might
> were off-line for a whole week and had a limited chance to vote. However
> the previous Elections (also with the voting period of a one week) were the
> second in number of voters.
>
> * Better advertisement
>   -- Any ideas how to attract people to vote ?
>   -- Nominated people to present them self in their own way ...
>
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
>
I think if possible we should avoid voting period when there is any big
event is happening. Like we had FUDCon Pune happened last week so many
people in APAC were busy for this event.

Also we need more promotion on Fedora Planet or Fedora Magazine when voting
opens then maybe 2 or 1 days remaining post for voting to end. I was busy
last week so not sure if someone posted about FESCo voting period there. If
we think voting period is less then we may want to extend it to total 10
days.

Regards,
Parag Nemade.
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