Re: Preliminary election results

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2012-06-14 13:37, GermÃn PÃo-CaamaÃo wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 11:41 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > I went to LWN this morning (it's part of my Thursday morning 
> > ritual),
> > and found the results of the "Fedora Board, FAmSCo, and FESCo"
> > elections, but couldn't find any reference to the GNOME Foundation 
> > Board
> > ones.
> >
> > Is there any reason why the preliminary election results for the 
> > Board
> > weren't  more publicised? Do we have anyone on the marketing team
> > looking at publicising the elections?
> >
> > About half of the Foundation membership actually voted, and those 
> > are
> > the ones with a ballot in their inbox already. I can't imaging 
> > people
> > from the outside getting excited about the elections or their 
> > results
> > when there's no coverage of the results, or the usually 
> > abruptly-ended
> > pre-vote discussions.
>
> Perhaps because they are preliminary results. A press release would 
> make
> sense once the results were official. IIRC, Johnathan Corbet is
> subscribed to foundation-list.
>
> Nevertheless, the process and the results used to be blogged as well 
> (as
> many other things in our community, not blaming anyone in 
> particular).
> If it were not by our interns and Michael Meeks, planet.gnome.org 
> would
> be almost empty.

I for one was waiting to blog it until we have official results - is 
that the lawyer in me?

I was also going to make sure we had a news item on our site, but I 
wouldn't have done that for preliminaries. I remember when I was at SFLC 
that I was a little confused by the attention to preliminary results.

karen