Re: Fedora Board election results

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:

>> With that in mind I want a picture of the breakdown between redhat and 
>> non-redhat voters so I can know if we have done an appropriate job 
>> communicating the importance of the board elections out into the 
>> external community.
>
> Just assume we haven't done an appropriate job.  With a 6% voter
> turnout, we have failed regardless.

Really?  Why?

Why is a 6% turnout necessarily a failure?

IMHO, a properly functioning governance body *should* be so effective that 
no one cares much either way when it comes time to replace the membership. 
>From my perspective, low turnout means low dissatisfaction.  All other 
indicators seem to point to continued success for Fedora and its 
contributors.

If there were endemic problems to the Fedora project that people wanted to 
fix, well, then, there's a mechanism for the disaffected to create change. 
If no one feels compelled to use that mechanism, is it necessarily a bad 
thing?

I myself almost didn't vote.  Why?  Because I liked the entire slate of 
candidates.  In the end, I did vote, and I voted entirely for non-RH 
candidates on principle... but I firmly believe that everyone elected will 
do a great job, and I firmly believe that everyone not elected would also 
have done a great job.

--g