[facilitation-discuss] Statistics from the last election

[Valerie Bubb Fenwick]

Dear Community -

The OGB has been discussing the election turnout on the
private alias. This message serves as the notification of
the private discussion and our high level summary of the
information.

As part of an effort to understand the disappointing turnout
of this year's election, the OGB had been given access to the
login records on the poll server (not the actual ballots).

Here is what we found:

466 people had active core contributor status at the time of the election
300 people logged into the polling server
268 ballots were cast
20  people logged in, but were not eligible to vote
12  people logged in, were eligible, but did not cast a vote

Breaking participation down by community group actually told
us very little, although we did note that overall participation
was much lower than we would have hoped.

In future elections, the OGB may make Community Group participation
numbers public.

We would like to understand the lack of voter turnout. Was
the system too hard to use/set-up? Were core contributors
not interested in the election? Or were they not aware their
participation was needed and expected?

Comments can be added to our suggestion wiki:
http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Suggestion_Box

Thank you,

Valerie, on behalf of the OGB.
-- 
Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva
Solaris Security Technologies,  Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.