Thread: [Council] Q2 2014 Community Council Election Announcement
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-07-16 , 18:48
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
To start with, most people are here to read TMO. It is not immediately obvious that talk.maemo.org is different from everything_else.maemo.org and that you need two accounts to be eligible to vote. That alone is an unnecessary complication and one thatmalmost stopped me from voting the first time. Why is it so difficult?
Yes, it is a bit confusing. For example I myself mistakenly asseted in this same thread few days back that you need a garage account to vote, when it actually is you need a Maemo account...

Maemo Veterans could elaborate on this, but I guess the multiple account thing is somewhat legacy; Maemo.org started as Nokia sponsored/owned developer forum while TMO started as ITT, an independent Nokia-tablets-forum that was later given/donated/sold to Nokia. At some point in time these were brought together but the 2-account-dichotomy persisted.

Techstaff might shed a light on this, would it be difficult or impossible to somehow harmonize these things...
I know that currently the "All things Maemo" are hosted on a virtual cluster composed of 7 differenf VM's, loosely coupled together.


Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Another thing. You say 1.5% of those eligible to vote bothered. Is "those eligibile to vote" the same as "the number of invitations sent"? I would normally assume yes, but with the two accounts absurdity, I no longer assume anything.
The number 5483 is voting invitations sent.

This is calculated by the voting engine based on the given electorate criteria; in this case you had to have a Maemo account with 10 or more karma to be eligible. It well might be possible that somebody has only Maemo account and no TMO account at all, I think.

Actually the set of voters that received the mailing might contain some "dead/unused" accounts, people no longer desiring to have anything to do with Maemo. There was one case of a person contacting us after the invitations were sent, asking to be removed from the mailing list since he no longer was intrested.
 

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