Now that the votes are in, it would be interesting to know the motives of you who didn't vote.

(For some reason I assume you still vote here on this poll... not very logical, is it ?)

From my understanding, you need karma on maemo.org to get an invitation to vote.
No maemo.org karma = no email informing you of the vote in the first place.

well, the interesting question is why those who do have enough karma and did receive an invitation still didn't vote...

Reason for not voting: I'm physically ~6000 miles away from the computer that has the email of voting credentials. Does that count as good excuse? (Yeah.... I could have saved the data on my tablet or laptop before I left but I didn't felt that so important... )

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When I first got involved with this community after purchasing my N800 in January of 07. Maemo org was in a dismal state. The relationship between the garage and the org site was not readily apparent and the web sites were in disrepair. About the only stable resource for a newbie like myself was this forum.

Out of frustration I have stuck with what works and wait patiently for new information to make its way to this "ghetto" as it has been called. I suppose this ghetto is my "comfort zone".

Since then I'm sure changes for the better have been made to maemo.org, et al however, because of the time I waisted initially trying to parse newbie info out of Maemo.org or even just connect, it will take some time before I feel comfortable interacting with it again.

I do understand that soon I will have no choice.

Oh... and as far as Karma goes... I have become quite adept at using my tablet. Along the way I have gained some knowledge that I try to pass along in my replies on this forum. Since this forum has been my No. 1 source of information for these endeavors, the only "Karma" that means anything to me is a members participation on this forum.

This is MHO, and it may or may not reflect the opinions of others...

... nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna nunna...

Is it possible that people with large amounts of Karma are not inclined to vote for a Community Council?

For instance, say a hypothetical application developer has 2500 Karma points based upon their ITT posts about their application, downloads, thanks, etc. This person has developed a community of their own, and is probably pretty focused on their own goals, objectives, commitments to users, etc. It is possible that such a person may not be inclined to vote in such an election, simply because they see no need for a Council, they would not benefit from one, it doesn't serve their interests, they have no time to vote, etc.

I guess, by extension, such a scenario is almost ironic. This person has done so much for the community that they are elibigle to vote, but at the same time, are not able to or are unwilling to, since they perceive that it doesn't benefit them directly. The system which choses the electorate may have a (large) built-in apathy factor. Just a thought.

Hello, GMail.

Yeah... if it was sent to gmail account. It was plain simple POP3 mail account. (I'm kind of old fashioned in that sense...)

Yeah, that's my point.

I didn't know about it, guess I'm too new.