<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Was it just me or did the "official" period for campaigning/questions was awfully short ?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The schedule [1] went:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">TC Campaigning: (Start) Oct 11, 2017 23:59 UTC (End) Oct 14, 2017 23:45 UTC</font></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That's three days, one of which was a saturday.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Was it always this short ? It seems to me that this is not a lot of time to the community to ask (read, and answer) thoughful questions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I realize this doesn't mean you can't keep asking questions once the actual election voting start but I wonder if we should cut a few days from the nomination and give it to the campaigning.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[1]: <a href="https://governance.openstack.org/election/#openstack-election">https://governance.openstack.org/election/#openstack-election</a></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><br>David Moreau Simard<br>Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO<br><br>dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:20 PM, Tony Breeds <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony@bakeyournoodle.com" target="_blank">tony@bakeyournoodle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hi All,<br>
With the election behind us it's somewhat traditional to look at<br>
some simple stats from the elections:<br>
<br>
+----------+------------------<wbr>-----+-------------------+----<wbr>-------------------+<br>
| Election | Electorate (delta %) | Voted (delta %) | Turnout % (delta %) |<br>
+----------+------------------<wbr>-----+-------------------+----<wbr>-------------------+<br>
| 10/2013 | 1106 ( nan) | 342 ( nan) | 30.92 ( nan) |<br>
| 04/2014 | 1510 ( 36.53) | 448 ( 30.99) | 29.67 ( -4.05) |<br>
| 10/2014 | 1893 ( 25.36) | 506 ( 12.95) | 26.73 ( -9.91) |<br>
| 04/2015 | 2169 ( 14.58) | 548 ( 8.30) | 25.27 ( -5.48) |<br>
| 10/2015 | 2759 ( 27.20) | 619 ( 12.96) | 22.44 ( -11.20) |<br>
| 04/2016 | 3284 ( 19.03) | 652 ( 5.33) | 19.85 ( -11.51) |<br>
| 10/2016 | 3517 ( 7.10) | 801 ( 22.85) | 22.78 ( 14.71) |<br>
| 04/2017 | 3191 ( -9.27) | 427 ( -46.69) | 13.38 ( -41.25) |<br>
| 10/2017 | 2430 ( -23.85) | 420 ( -1.64) | 17.28 ( 29.16) |<br>
+----------+------------------<wbr>-----+-------------------+----<wbr>-------------------+<br>
<br>
Election CIVS links<br>
10/2014: <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_c105db929e6c11f4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/<wbr>cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_<wbr>c105db929e6c11f4</a><br>
04/2015: <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ef1379fee7b94688" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/<wbr>cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_<wbr>ef1379fee7b94688</a><br>
10/2015: <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_4ef58718618691a0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/<wbr>cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_<wbr>4ef58718618691a0</a><br>
04/2016: <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_fef5cc22eb3dc27a" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/<wbr>cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_<wbr>fef5cc22eb3dc27a</a><br>
10/2016: <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_356e6c1b16904010" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/<wbr>cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_<wbr>356e6c1b16904010</a><br>
04/2017: <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_072c4cd7ff0673b5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/<wbr>cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_<wbr>072c4cd7ff0673b5</a><br>
10/2017: <a href="http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ce86063991ef8aae" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/<wbr>cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_<wbr>ce86063991ef8aae</a><br>
<br>
I don't have a feel for with the Pike electorate decreased but my gut<br>
feel is that it was organic drop-off possibly in part to the shorter<br>
Ocata development cycle. The Queens drop-off was due to a new[1]<br>
membership API being available that meant we could validate Foundation<br>
membership instead of using gerrit permission as a proxy.<br>
<br>
I'd like to call out that with Pike we had a very dramatic decrease in<br>
voter turnout both in absolute and relative terms. As a community it's<br>
worth trying to understand whether this is a problem and/or a trend that<br>
needs to change.<br>
<br>
Yours Tony.<br>
<br>
[1] It wasn't that new it was also used during the PTL election[2]<br>
[2] See:<br>
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-July/119786.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/<wbr>pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-<wbr>July/119786.html</a> ; and<br>
<a href="http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-August/120544.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.openstack.org/<wbr>pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-<wbr>August/120544.html</a><br>
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