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Was it just me or did the "official" period for campaigning/questions was
awfully short ?

The schedule [1] went:
​TC Campaigning: (Start) Oct 11, 2017 23:59 UTC (End) Oct 14, 2017 23:45
UTC​

​That's three days, one of which was a saturday.
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.

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.

​[1]: https://governance.openstack.org/election/#openstack-election​

David Moreau Simard
Senior Software Engineer | OpenStack RDO

dmsimard = [irc, github, twitter]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 8:20 PM, 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
>
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