On 21 October 2017 at 01:20, Tony Breeds <tony at bakeyournoodle.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > With the election behind us it's somewhat traditional to look at > some simple stats from the elections: > > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > | Election | Electorate (delta %) | Voted (delta %) | Turnout % (delta %) | > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > | 10/2013 | 1106 ( nan) | 342 ( nan) | 30.92 ( nan) | > | 04/2014 | 1510 ( 36.53) | 448 ( 30.99) | 29.67 ( -4.05) | > | 10/2014 | 1893 ( 25.36) | 506 ( 12.95) | 26.73 ( -9.91) | > | 04/2015 | 2169 ( 14.58) | 548 ( 8.30) | 25.27 ( -5.48) | > | 10/2015 | 2759 ( 27.20) | 619 ( 12.96) | 22.44 ( -11.20) | > | 04/2016 | 3284 ( 19.03) | 652 ( 5.33) | 19.85 ( -11.51) | > | 10/2016 | 3517 ( 7.10) | 801 ( 22.85) | 22.78 ( 14.71) | > | 04/2017 | 3191 ( -9.27) | 427 ( -46.69) | 13.38 ( -41.25) | > | 10/2017 | 2430 ( -23.85) | 420 ( -1.64) | 17.28 ( 29.16) | > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+ > > Election CIVS links > 10/2014: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_c105db929e6c11f4 > 04/2015: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ef1379fee7b94688 > 10/2015: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_4ef58718618691a0 > 04/2016: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_fef5cc22eb3dc27a > 10/2016: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_356e6c1b16904010 > 04/2017: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_072c4cd7ff0673b5 > 10/2017: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ce86063991ef8aae > > I don't have a feel for with the Pike electorate decreased but my gut > feel is that it was organic drop-off possibly in part to the shorter > Ocata development cycle. The Queens drop-off was due to a new[1] > membership API being available that meant we could validate Foundation > membership instead of using gerrit permission as a proxy. > > I'd like to call out that with Pike we had a very dramatic decrease in > voter turnout both in absolute and relative terms. As a community it's > worth trying to understand whether this is a problem and/or a trend that > needs to change. > > Yours Tony. > > [1] It wasn't that new it was also used during the PTL election[2] > [2] See: > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-July/119786.html ; and > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-August/120544.html > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: OpenStack-dev-request at lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > Very interesting analysis. I agree, we should care about not repeating this Pike trend. It looks like Queens is better in terms of turnout (see the amazing positive delta!). However, I can't help but noticing that the trend for turnouts is slowly reducing (excluding some outliers) since the beginning of these stats. Any idea on how to improve that? On top of that, thanks to all the candidates, and congratulations! Best regards, Jean-Philippe Evrard (evrardjp)