Steven Acres wrote: > As long as we have enough voter participation come March, we're good > to go.
This is a critical issue. Advocacy had a very large number of CCs during the election, but my impression is that very few actually voted and that very few are interested in governance generally. That's their choice, I suppose, but the problem with that is we can't change the Constitution with a simple majority of the people who voted. Instead, we need a majority of /all potential voters/ -- or what the Constitution calls Members of Record. That increases the percentage of affirmative votes needed pretty substantially. After the election, however, a large number of Advocacy CCs expired and fell off the voting roles, which is good. So now, given its size, Advocacy currently has a much more representative place in the overall OpenSolaris electorate. Bottom line: if Community Groups add a lot of Core Contributors in the run up to the election, like we have done in previous elections, and a large number Core Contributors don't vote, then we will be right back in the same place we are now. If Core Contributors don't intend to vote in elections, they should resign their Core Contributor status and just be Contributors. Jim -- http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/
