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It seems like AGPLv3 won by a slim margin, and as a donator I was unaware of the voting and would have voted Apache. Since the desire was to make the selection

It seems like AGPLv3 won by a slim margin, and as a donator I was unaware of the voting and would have voted Apache. Since the desire was to make the selection democratic they should have sent an email with a title along the lines of 'vote request / help us choose the mailpile license'.

belorn 11y ago
In every election ever made that has ended with a slim margin, people will reflect backwards and wished that they had been better informed or made more aware about the vote. Its kind of human behavior to wish that you could go back in time in order to do a small change and have a large impact, but so long there is statistically significant amount of voters, for everyone person that would go back and vote apache there would be an 1.06 of AGPLv3 voters that would also have not been as aware about the voting and would have voted AGPLv3. That said, 16.5% voting participation is a bit on the low end. My guess is that it mostly reflect those who reads the Mailpile blog, are active in the development, or are active in places like HN/conferences where news about the vote has been announced several times.
HerraBRE 11y ago
Hello, Bjarni here from Mailpile. I'm sorry you missed our announcements - we did send an e-mail to everyone who donated $23 USD or more, inviting them to our community voting platform. We tweeted and blogged, it was mentioned on Facebook... we used all the channels we have and overall I've been very happy with community response. There will be other votes in the future, so please follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our blog's RSS if you're interested. And thank you for your support! :-) Regarding the election; as I mentioned in the post, I have been following the ratios since elections started. The ratios have been pretty stable the whole time; for every Apache vote there were roughly 1.05 AGPLv3 votes... I think it's unlikely that better outreach would have changed things. A broader and more lively debate might have, but given our limited resources we weren't able to stoke that particular fire any more than we did.
- jlgaddis 11y ago
  The blog post mentioned there was 16.5% "voter turnout". Out of curiosity, what is the percentage of all of your donors who donated $23 USD or more (and, thus, received the e-mail invitation)? I'm simply curious if there's a correlation between the two.
  - HerraBRE 11y ago
    It's 1:1, being able to vote is a perk you get for having donated $23 or more. This is only the first time we seek feedback, not the last. :)

belorn 11y ago

In every election ever made that has ended with a slim margin, people will reflect backwards and wished that they had been better informed or made more aware about the vote. Its kind of human behavior to wish that you could go back in time in order to do a small change and have a large impact, but so long there is statistically significant amount of voters, for everyone person that would go back and vote apache there would be an 1.06 of AGPLv3 voters that would also have not been as aware about the voting and would have voted AGPLv3. That said, 16.5% voting participation is a bit on the low end. My guess is that it mostly reflect those who reads the Mailpile blog, are active in the development, or are active in places like HN/conferences where news about the vote has been announced several times.

HerraBRE 11y ago

Hello, Bjarni here from Mailpile. I'm sorry you missed our announcements - we did send an e-mail to everyone who donated $23 USD or more, inviting them to our community voting platform. We tweeted and blogged, it was mentioned on Facebook... we used all the channels we have and overall I've been very happy with community response. There will be other votes in the future, so please follow us on Twitter or subscribe to our blog's RSS if you're interested. And thank you for your support! :-) Regarding the election; as I mentioned in the post, I have been following the ratios since elections started. The ratios have been pretty stable the whole time; for every Apache vote there were roughly 1.05 AGPLv3 votes... I think it's unlikely that better outreach would have changed things. A broader and more lively debate might have, but given our limited resources we weren't able to stoke that particular fire any more than we did.

jlgaddis 11y ago
The blog post mentioned there was 16.5% "voter turnout". Out of curiosity, what is the percentage of all of your donors who donated $23 USD or more (and, thus, received the e-mail invitation)? I'm simply curious if there's a correlation between the two.
- HerraBRE 11y ago
  It's 1:1, being able to vote is a perk you get for having donated $23 or more. This is only the first time we seek feedback, not the last. :)