Excerpts from Zane Bitter's message of 2016-10-10 11:10:53 -0400: > On 09/10/16 19:58, Tony Breeds wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:49:12AM +1100, Tony Breeds wrote: > >> Please join me in congratulating the 6 newly elected members of the TC. > >> > >> Doug Hellmann (dhellmann) > >> Emilien Macchi (emilienm) > >> Jeremy Stanley (fungi) > >> Monty Taylor (mordred) > >> Sean Dague (sdague) > >> Steve Martinelli (stevemar) > >> > >> > >> Full results: > >> http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_356e6c1b16904010 > > > > Following up on this Here are some statistics for this election: > > > > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > > | Election | Electorate (delta %) | Voted (delta %) | Turnout % (delta > > %) | > > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > > | 10/2013 | 1106 ( nan) | 342 ( nan) | 30.92 ( > > nan) | > > | 04/2014 | 1510 ( 36.53) | 448 ( 30.99) | 29.67 ( > > -4.05) | > > | 10/2014 | 1893 ( 25.36) | 506 ( 12.95) | 26.73 ( > > -9.91) | > > | 04/2015 | 2169 ( 14.58) | 548 ( 8.30) | 25.27 ( > > -5.48) | > > | 10/2015 | 2759 ( 27.20) | 619 ( 12.96) | 22.44 ( > > -11.20) | > > | 04/2016 | 3284 ( 19.03) | 652 ( 5.33) | 19.85 ( > > -11.51) | > > | 10/2016 | 3517 ( 7.10) | 801 ( 22.85) | 22.78 ( > > 14.71) | > > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > > > > Election CIVS links > > 10/2014: > > http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_c105db929e6c11f4 > > 04/2015: > > http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ef1379fee7b94688 > > 10/2015: > > http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_4ef58718618691a0 > > 04/2016: > > http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_fef5cc22eb3dc27a > > 10/2016: > > http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_356e6c1b16904010 > > > > It's interesting to note that we increased voter turnout this election, > > This is truly excellent news :) >
I totally agree. > > perhaps as a side effect of the complications with emailing the ballots? > > That's an interesting idea, although I like to think it was also helped > by the fact that members of the community were actually engaging with > the candidates and generating a robust debate. Thanks Gordon, Clay, and > all the other folks whose questions helped to spark that - I hope we'll > see even more of it in future elections. > > I'd certainly appreciate a follow-up email towards the end of the voting > period (i.e. it wouldn't even necessarily need to be a re-sending of the > ballot link - finding that again is generally no problem). I wanted to > see what the candidates had to say in response to the various questions > on the mailing list before voting, but I was definitely starting to get > nervous toward the end of the week that I might forget. > Indeed. I think it might make sense to have a brief period between nomination deadline, and poll creation, maybe 1 week, to spark this debate and get the community engaged with the candidates. This goes for all of the elections. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev