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.
