Fedora Board December 2009 Results
 

Hi f-a-b subscribers, the moment you have been waiting for.

The votes have been tallied and I can now announce the 2 successful candidates for the Fedora Board.

We had a total of 225 votes for this election, meaning that each candidate could obtain up to a maximum of 900 votes.

The results are as follows:

1. Matt Domsch 643
2. Chris Tyler 475

*** Cut Off ***

3. Coin Walters 451
4. Steven M. Parrish 412


So please join me in congratulating Matt and Chris on their return to the Fedora Board.

Please find the full GPG-signed release announcement attached.

Regards,

Nigel Jones
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Election Results for Fedora Board, Fedora 11 Release Cycle

Voting Period: 05 December 2009 00:00:00 UTC to 16 December 2009 23:59:59 UTC

Nominations:

* Chris Tyler (ctyler)
* Colin Walters (walters)
* Matt Domsch (mdomsch)
* Steven M. Parrish (SMParrish)

Outcomes:

As defined in the election text, the two (2) candidate(s) with the
greatest number of votes will be elected for a full, 2 release term.

Information:

At close of voting there were 225 valid ballots.

Using the Fedora Range Voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of
900 votes.

Results:

1. Matt Domsch 643
2. Chris Tyler 475
*** Cut Off ***
3. Coin Walters 451
4. Steven M. Parrish 412
As such, Matt Domsch and Chris Tyler are elected to the Fedora Board for a 2 release term as of January 7, 2010.

Signed,

Nigel Jones <nigjones@redhat.com>
Elections Administrator
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Fedora Board December 2009 Results
 

Nigel Jones said the following on 12/17/2009 05:34 AM Pacific Time:

Hi f-a-b subscribers, the moment you have been waiting for.

The votes have been tallied and I can now announce the 2 successful candidates for the Fedora Board.

We had a total of 225 votes for this election, meaning that each candidate could obtain up to a maximum of 900 votes.

The results are as follows:

1. Matt Domsch 643
2. Chris Tyler 475

*** Cut Off ***

3. Coin Walters 451
4. Steven M. Parrish 412


So please join me in congratulating Matt and Chris on their return to the Fedora Board.

Please find the full GPG-signed release announcement attached.

Regards,

Nigel Jones
Fedora Election Administrator


Thanks Nigel.

To get a true measure of the level of "voter turn out" can you also tell
us the total number of people that were eligible to vote in this election?


John

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Le 17/12/2009 16:20, Aaron Konstam a =C3=A9crit :

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 08:45 +0100, Fran=C3=A7ois Patte wrote:=20

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Le 17/12/2009 01:10, Aaron Konstam a =C3=A9crit :

The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a flop=

py

disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can
accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the
procedure.

Look there:

http://linux.dell.com/repo/community/


As I understand the procedure:

wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash

then:

yum -y install firmware-addon-dell
yum install -y $(bootstrap_firmware)

update_firmware --yes


Let us kow the result.

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I am a little nervous that they do not list a repository for fedora 12.


In fact, the package firmware-addon-dell-2.1.2-5.3.fc12.i686 can be
installed from f12 repository, so you can run directly:

update_firmware

To see what if your firmware has to be update and if yes, you run:

update_firmware --yes


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Fedora Board December 2009 Results
 

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 07:25:31AM -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> Nigel Jones said the following on 12/17/2009 05:34 AM Pacific Time:
> >Hi f-a-b subscribers, the moment you have been waiting for.
> >
> >The votes have been tallied and I can now announce the 2 successful
> >candidates for the Fedora Board.
> >
> >We had a total of 225 votes for this election, meaning that each
> >candidate could obtain up to a maximum of 900 votes.
> >
> >The results are as follows:
> >
> >1. Matt Domsch 643
> >2. Chris Tyler 475
> >
> >*** Cut Off ***
> >
> >3. Coin Walters 451
> >4. Steven M. Parrish 412
> >
> >
> >So please join me in congratulating Matt and Chris on their return
> >to the Fedora Board.
> >
> >Please find the full GPG-signed release announcement attached.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Nigel Jones
> >Fedora Election Administrator
>
> Thanks Nigel.
>
> To get a true measure of the level of "voter turn out" can you also
> tell us the total number of people that were eligible to vote in
> this election?

Hi John, since Nigel is asleep I used fedora-python and found out the
number of people in cla_done currently: 18,252

Also, here are ballot numbers for the last four Board elections:

June 2008: 250
December 2008: 227
June 2009: 297
December 2009: 225

The ping-ponging of ballot numbers is interesting. The lower December
numbers might lead one to conclude we need better publicity around
elections in December. IIRC, Nigel has told us in the past the
majority of ballots come in early, which would not support just having
longer elections then.

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Fedora Board December 2009 Results
 

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 9:25 AM, John Poelstra <poelstra@redhat.com> wrote:
> To get a true measure of the level of "voter turn out" can you also tell us
> the total number of people that were eligible to vote in this election?

While this is always interesting to see I've been struggling for the
past couple of years with the question of what we want to conclude
from such a measure?

It always seems to grate on people that far more contributors vote for
the codename than vote for anything else, but should it bother us?

There seem to be two main reasons people share with me about why they
don't vote. One is that they are interested in contributing something
in particular to the project so they do that but they aren't
interested in project governance so they don't participate in that
part of the project (just as they don't participate in other project
areas that don't interest them). The other and by far the most common
reason I've heard is that the contributor doesn't know anything about
the candidates beyond perhaps name recognition and for that reason
they just don't feel competent to make an intelligent vote.

We have been trying things to address the second item above by adding
town halls and questionnaires during the election to give contributors
a chance to meet the candidates and get to know them a bit more
personally. We get almost universal positive feedback from both of
these initiatives, but the numbers of people who seem to be affected
by them seems quite small. There has been some negative feedback about
town halls from candidates who feel it is altering the nature of
Fedora elections in a bad way. I don't agree with that criticism at
present but I do admit to seeing it as a danger. [I will say that one
election this year seemed to have some unpleasantness attached to it
that I've not seen before and that I hope to not see again, to what
extent the process had anything to do with that I'm not sure.]

While a meritocracy and an open democratic election process don't need
to be at odds, I do think some of our efforts to increase voter turn
out, adding things that seem a bit like debates to the process for one
example, do tilt the expectations in a way that might be at odds with
a meritocracy. Having too much focus on what the voter turn out
actually was is another thing that I think tilts us away from being
governed by a meritocracy.

So the natural evolution of the election process seems to me to result
in an open election with a small number of heavily involved
contributors voting (making the decisions). If we want more voter
participation the best way to preserve the underlying meritocracy is
to get more heavily involved contributors. That number is always going
to be rather small when compared to the number of people we allow to
vote.

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Fedora Board December 2009 Results
 

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:16:24AM -0600, inode0 wrote:
>So the natural evolution of the election process seems to me to result
>in an open election with a small number of heavily involved
>contributors voting (making the decisions). If we want more voter
>participation the best way to preserve the underlying meritocracy is
>to get more heavily involved contributors. That number is always going
>to be rather small when compared to the number of people we allow to
>vote.

I think that's true.

Some people just like statistics though :).

josh

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Fedora Board December 2009 Results
 

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:34:02AM -0500, Nigel Jones wrote:
> Hi f-a-b subscribers, the moment you have been waiting for.
>
> The votes have been tallied and I can now announce the 2 successful
> candidates for the Fedora Board.
>
> We had a total of 225 votes for this election, meaning that each
> candidate could obtain up to a maximum of 900 votes.
>
> The results are as follows:
>
> 1. Matt Domsch 643
> 2. Chris Tyler 475
>
> *** Cut Off ***
>
> 3. Coin Walters 451
> 4. Steven M. Parrish 412
>
>
> So please join me in congratulating Matt and Chris on their return
> to the Fedora Board.
>
> Please find the full GPG-signed release announcement attached.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nigel Jones
> Fedora Election Administrator

The following schedule will apply to the seating of the new Board:

Thu Dec 17 -- Regular meeting

Fri Dec 18 -- OOA this date, announce final appointment to Board

Thu Dec 24 -- No meeting, holiday break

Thu Dec 31 -- No meeting, holiday break

Thu Jan 07 -- Handoff meeting, any non-returning Board members invited
to attend as their last meeting

There are a few individuals under consideration for the final
appointed Board seat. This appointment is made after elections are
completed to balance the Board's composition, and represent the entire
Fedora community as much as possible. Although this appointment is
ultimately up to the Fedora Project Leader to decide, generally the
FPL discusses the appointments with others to achieve a consensus. I
expect to make this final appointment within the next few days.

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2009/12/18 inode0 <inode0@gmail.com>:
> areas that don't interest them). The other and by far the most common
> reason I've heard is that the contributor doesn't know anything about
> the candidates beyond perhaps name recognition and for that reason
> they just don't feel competent to make an intelligent vote.
>

Me falls in this category. If I had enough time I'd have read all the
questions and town hall logs. One reason is I cannot read blobs of
English very fast. However email is fine, maybe I should paste those
text into email and then read them?


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Fedora Board December 2009 Results
 

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fri Dec 18 -- OOA this date, announce final appointment to Board
>
> Thu Dec 24 -- No meeting, holiday break
>
> Thu Dec 31 -- No meeting, holiday break
>
> Thu Jan 07 -- Handoff meeting, any non-returning Board members invited
> * * * * * * *to attend as their last meeting
>
> There are a few individuals under consideration for the final
> appointed Board seat. *This appointment is made after elections are
> completed to balance the Board's composition, and represent the entire
> Fedora community as much as possible. *Although this appointment is
> ultimately up to the Fedora Project Leader to decide, generally the
> FPL discusses the appointments with others to achieve a consensus. *I
> expect to make this final appointment within the next few days.

I still have the final Board appointment under consideration. The
selection and announcement will be made after Christmas but
significantly before the first meeting of the new Board on January 7.

Apologies for the late notice -- this note was drafted earlier but I
hadn't had a chance to send it out.

Paul

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