FESCo vote history
By Pierre-Yves on Monday, June 29 2015, 09:41 - Général - Permalink
A while back I gathered some numbers about the number of participants to some election held in Fedora.
With the results of the new FESCo election being announced I wanted to go back and see the new trend:
FESCo (voters) 2008-07 150 2008-12 169 2009-06 308 2009-12 216 2010-05 180 2010-11 240 2011-06 200 2011-12 225 2012-06 236 2012-12 206 2013-06 166 2014-02 265 2014-07 195 2015-01 283 2015-06 90
As you can see, this last election was the one with the lowest number of participants since at least July 2008.
Comments
You should maybe ask for the reasons for this. I think there are several factors:
* insufficient publicization of the vote. For example, in past elections, announcements and "I voted" badges were spammed all over Planet Fedora. This time, there was only the interview series from Fedora Magazine.
* bad timing for the election. In most of Europe, it was the last or second-to-last week before the summer break. In the USA, it was IN the summer break.
* unhappiness with what FESCo is doing and/or a feeling that a new FESCo won't change anything anyway (also because important decisions now get imposed by the Council/Board or even Red Hat). (See "Fedora.Next", a big failure that turned Fedora on the desktop into a GNOME monocracy.)
* unhappiness with democracy in Fedora. For example, the new "Council" STILL has appointed seats. (It is also neither an actual council nor a directly elected board, but a mix of both and of appointed seats. With that composition, it fails both at the "council" idea of representing the subcommunities AND at allowing the community to elect its board.)