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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:

> Excerpts from Eoghan Glynn's message of 2014-10-29 16:37:42 -0700:
> >
> > > > On Oct 29, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Eoghan Glynn <eglynn at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Folks,
> > > >
> > > > I haven't seen the customary number-crunching on the recent TC
> election,
> > > > so I quickly ran the numbers myself.
> > > >
> > > > Voter Turnout
> > > > =============
> > > >
> > > > The turnout rate continues to decline, in this case from 29.7% to
> 26.7%.
> > > >
> > > > Here's how the participation rates have shaped up since the first
> TC2.0
> > > > election:
> > > >
> > > > Election | Electorate | Voted | Turnout | Change
> > > > ------------------------------------------------
> > > > 10/2013  | 1106       | 342   | 30.9%   | -8.0%
> > > > 04/2014  | 1510       | 448   | 29.7%   | -4.1%
> > > > 10/2014  | 1892       | 506   | 26.7%   | -9.9%
> > >
> > >
> > > Overall percentage of the electorate voting is declining, but absolute
> > > numbers of voters has increased. And in fact, the electorate has grown
> more
> > > than the turnout has declined.
> >
> > True that, but AFAIK the generally accepted metric on participation rates
> > in elections is turnout as opposed to absolute voter numbers.
> >
>
> IIRC, there is no method for removing foundation members. So there are
> likely a number of people listed who have moved on to other activities and
> are no longer involved with OpenStack. I'd actually be quite interested
> to see the turnout numbers with voters who missed the last two elections
> prior to this one filtered out.
>

Sounds like you need to freshen up on your bylaws ;).  There are methods to
remove foundation members: Bylaws Appendix 1 Section 3 [0]. Also you have
to be an ATC not just a Individual Member to vote, Appendix 4 Section 2 [1]

[0] http://www.openstack.org/legal/individual-member-policy/
[1] http://www.openstack.org/legal/technical-committee-member-policy/


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