Re: Corporate affiliations

[Bart Decrem <bart eazel com>]

Hi Etienne,

Very interesting script.  The take aways for me were:
- 13% of Helix and Eazel votes came from people associated with those
companies.
- Votes coming from Helix and Eazel accounted for 8% and 7.4% respectively
of the total votes cast
- The numerical influence of people affiliated with other companies (RH, Sun
etc) was negligible.
- While voters without corporate affiliations cast 23% an 21% of their votes
respectively for Helix and Eazel, Helix and Eazel-affiliated voters cast
something like 33% and 40% of their votes for candidates affiliated with
their company.

In view of the number of key Gnome hackers employed at Helix and Eazel, the
influence here doesn't feel disproportionate to me.

The interesting thing will be to compare this year's numbers against next
year's elections.  I'm curious to see how corporate influence in the
elections will change as Gnome gains more corporate acceptance and support.

Bart


Etienne Grossmann wrote:

>   Hello,
>
> Kevin D. Knerr, Sr." <kknerrsr ptdprolog net> writes:
>
> > Finally cast my ballot--but as I reviewed the corporate affiliations, I
> > realized that my "ideal board" might just barely pass muster.
> >
> > I have:
> >
> > 1 Compaq
> > 2 Eazel
> > 2 Helix
> > 1 Red Hat
> > 1 Sun
> > 4 other non-GNOME
> >
> > Whew! Good thing I didn't choose *5* non-GNOME candidates!  ;-)
>
>   out of curiosity and some scripting, I produced the table below,
> which comes with no warranty of being correct. If anyone wants to see
> the script that produced it, I can put it on my homepage or post it. I
> wouldn't be surprised if it had a few bugs and errors.
>
>   Etienne
>
> ======================================================================
>   Data produced by the command :
>
>   ./by_affiliation.pl candidate-affiliation.txt results.txt.final
>
> Each row in the table below shows one possible voter's
> affiliation.
>
> * The first column contains the number of voters with this
>   affiliation.
>
> * The second column contains the number of votes cast by these voters
>   (at most eleven votes per voter).
>
> * Subsequent columns contain the number of votes for each of the
>   possible affiliatons. For example, the cell corresponding to row
>   'none', column 'Helx' contains the number of votes cast by
>   non-affiliated voters for candidates affiliated with 'Helix Code'.
>   whom they voted
>
> Affiliation of candidates is determined from the list of candidates in
>
>  http://mail.gnome.org
>  /archives/foundation-announce/2000-October/msg00036.html
>
> Affiliation of voters is determined by mail address and may be
> wrong. So the figures in this table may be inacurate.
>
>  Org  | Ballots | Votes ||none|Helx|Eazl|RHat|Henz| Sun| W3C|Comp|SuSE
> ------+---------+-------++----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----
>  none |    266  |  2661 || 472| 623| 576| 465|  33| 107| 132| 158|  95
>  Helx |     26  |   279 ||  28| 104|  55|  48|   0|  15|   6|  19|   4
>  Eazl |     23  |   245 ||  17|  32| 100|  47|   2|  11|   8|  16|  12
>  RHat |      8  |    86 ||  10|  13|  21|  16|   0|   6|   8|   6|   6
>  Henz |      1  |    11 ||   1|   3|   3|   1|   1|   0|   1|   0|   1
>   Sun |      1  |    11 ||   1|   2|   2|   3|   1|   1|   0|   1|   0
>   W3C |      1  |    11 ||   2|   2|   3|   2|   0|   0|   1|   0|   1
>  Comp |      1  |    11 ||   1|   2|   3|   2|   0|   1|   0|   1|   1
>  SuSE |      1  |     9 ||   2|   3|   1|   2|   0|   0|   0|   0|   1
>
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