[maemo-community] Quick stats on voter lists

[From: Jason Edgecombe]

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just generated the list of voters for the elections, and thought
> that you might be interested in some stats:
>
> Number of maemo.org accounts on 10/6/2008: 12288
> Number of accounts with karma under 5: 9454
> Number of accounts with karma 5 and 9: 2786
> Number of accounts with karma between 10 and 24: 607
> Number of accounts with karma 25 or greater: 437
>
> Especially noteworthy for me was that a number of people (6) have
> negative karma - mostly from having blog posts aggressively buried. A
> couple of the people in this situation surprised me a lot! The 6
> negatives are: chri_ke, karoliina, maddler, mikel, thoughtfix and zeenix.
>
> The conclusion I draw from this is that 90% of people who create a
> maemo.org account never do anything with it, and thus don't merit a vote
> in a community election. But as we've already agreed on how this one
> will work, I'm going to work on the assumption that those 10000 people
> won't vote.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>   
Do mailing list emails and package releases count? I haven't been very
active except for some emails on the mailing lists and releasing the
openafs maemo packages.

Jason