[openstack-dev] TC election by the numbers

Clint Byrum clint at fewbar.com
Thu Oct 30 03:45:16 UTC 2014


Excerpts from Jeremy Stanley's message of 2014-10-29 18:37:42 -0700:
> On 2014-10-29 18:27:48 -0700 (-0700), Clint Byrum wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, the base electorate for the TC are active contributors with
> patches landed to official projects within the past year, so these
> are devs getting their code merged but not interested in voting.
> This is somewhat different from (though potentially related to) the
> "dead weight" foundation membership on the rolls for board
> elections.
> 
> Also, foundation members who have not voted in two board elections
> are being removed from the membership now, from what I understand
> (we just needed to get to the point where we had two years worth of
> board elections in the first place).

Thanks, I lost my mind here and confused the board with the TC.

So then my next question is, of those who did not vote, how many are
from under-represented companies? A higher percentage there might point
to disenfranchisement.



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