Re: [gentoo-nfp] Nominee manifestos?

[Roy Bamford]

On 2017.07.13 08:48, Daniel Campbell wrote:
> On 07/12/2017 04:17 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> The recent Council election results confirm that Gentoo is
> interested in
> >> shaking things up a little.
> >
> > I'm not sure I follow.  All 4 incumbents ended up in the top 5
> slots,
> > and mgorny (the only candidate to outrank an incumbent) has
> > practically written half the proposals in the last year.
> >
> > Overall it was a pretty conservative result.  That isn't intended to
> > disparage anybody who wasn't an incumbent (nobody starts out as an
> > incumbent) - just an observation that as has been the case in the
> last
> > few years the incumbents have tended to win.
> >
>
> Why stop at five when the Council consists of seven members? Three
> seats
> changed for 2017-2018. I took the time to dig up past election results
> and indicated the change between each year. [1, also attached] The
> last
> time 3 or more seats changed was in the 2013-2014 election. To me,
> that's significant enough to claim that there is movement within
> Gentoo,
> especially considering last year's election had no change in seats.
> Before that (2015-2016) was 2 seats, and before that (2014-2015), only
> one.
>
> [1]: https://dev.gentoo.org/~zlg/election-results.txt
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Daniel,

A better measure of change might be incumbants unseated.
For example, this year rich0 and blueness did not stand for 
reelection, so its not an indicator of change that they were 
not reelected.  

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Roy Bamford
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