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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council Elections Results for term 2014-2015
From:       Rich Freeman <rich0 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2014-07-18 11:37:09
Message-ID: CAGfcS_=zsr2CYu31Pg7X=jp-Y66fi3UfdcEewz1FWqZQRbadSg () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 18/07/14 05:06, Richard Yao wrote:
>> I felt that posting a platform before someone asked would be
>> inappropriate, so I made the conscious decision to wait for a
>> single person to ask before posting anything. No one asked, so I
>> posted nothing.
> People are likely inclined to take this as either arrogance or
> nonchalance -- i.e. like you could take a council position or leave
> it. Please post something next time. You will likely be higher on my
> list if you will.

Live and learn...

Don't take rankings too personally.  The algorithm has to stick
something at the top, and something at the bottom, and it isn't like
we have tons of dead wood on the ballot.  Having somebody who
genuinely cares about Gentoo and wants to contribute coming in last
was a fairly likely outcome as a result.

Definitely don't take election results as some kind of judgement of
the work you're doing.  Writing ebuilds, designing package managers,
being on Comrel, being a Trustee, being on Infra, and being on QA are
all very different roles - just to pick some examples.  People look
for different things when voting about one vs the other.  Also, most
who were elected were incumbents, and not being an incumbent isn't
something that anybody new can do anything about.

Just keep doing good work!  The nice thing about Gentoo is that
anybody who wants to step up and take things in a new direction can do
so fairly easily as long as it doesn't impact the average experience.

Rich


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