Now that the election process for the community-elected governance committee has concluded, it’ll be good to hear feedback about the election process itself. This includes technical comments i.e. comments regarding the web platform used for candidate nominations, candidate endorsements, and the voting process itself but also non-technical comments about the election process itself e.g. guidelines for canvassing by candidates, timelines for the election, etc.
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First off, congratulations to everybody for pulling this off ! The number of votes cast is metric of engagement, and this election establishes a useful baseline.
I’d say there were some inconveniences. Since it was mostly techies voting, I am hoping we all figured it out.
The ballot page said “to elect 3 members to our Governance board”, but 5 options were presented, and 5 were chosen. I found this part was somewhat confusing but I kind of guessed there will be 5 chosen (read STV wikipedia article again at that time). I just cross checked - the governance thread also says 3 members to be elected. But anyway 5 is a better choice ! (I had a comment on the governance doc that 3 is too less and I support 5 - it being the next bigger odd number, and there being enough candidates in contention).
The web platform wasn’t mobile friendly - telegram links are naturally opened on mobile first. Even on desktop I didn’t see the text flowing naturally. Similarly on the candidates details page.
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I agree with @Shree_Kumar. A lot of people on mobile were not able to see many candidates so they voted for people who they were able to see.
The overall process was good, but I felt I couldn’t campaign as there was no direct link for voting and selecting the five was tricky. I cast my first vote to another candidate I liked, I hope that in the next round, I will participate again after being active and engaging with the community.