#626 Family of badges for voting in Fedora elections: "I Voted"
Closed: duplicate 2 years ago by riecatnor. Opened 6 years ago by dmalcolm.

Badge description (like "You added a co-maintainer to a package. BFF!"):
- "You voted in a Fedora election"
- "You voted in <N> Fedora elections"
for N in some set of numbers.

Help the badges team understand what this idea is all about. If this badge is
awarded for certain kinds of activities:

1) What are those activities?
- Voting in a Fedora election (FESCo, Mindshare, and Council elections; anything else?)

This thread bemoans the low turnout in the recent FESCo elections:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/PLIZR72VT4S4TZ33DYBDLRSEFTECZECR/

2) Who is doing them (are they packagers? translators? newcomers? veterans?
users? sponsors?)
- Fedora account holders,

3) Why are they doing them (is this a means to a different end?)
- Even if people are broadly happy with the status quo, having a high turnout in elections is arguably healthier for the process. It also might encourage people to become candidates.

4) When do they do them (every day? once a year?)
- AIUI there are 3 different elections, held every six months

5) How do they do them (by talking in IRC? by running commands in the console?
by using a web interface?)
- Using the Fedora voting app: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting/

Lastly, do you have any ideas for artwork concepts?
- "I voted" maybe, or a ballot paper showing several different badgers with a tick next to one of them (or a ranked order next to them)


Or they could be per-ballot badges, so that each Fedora election gets its own "I Voted" badge. Not sure.

(Possible anonymity issues here: we don't want a way for 3rd parties to figure out who voted for whom. Is it acceptable for the fact that someone voted to be public?)

We could make a checkbox or final button that says "Claim my I Voted! badge". That way, people who do not want to advertise that they voted could opt not to.

Also, maybe we should only grant them after the election is closed so it doesn't leak any information about if people already voted or not? I don't know if that's secret, but it might be potentially. E.g. if partial test results are visible for the admins / elections manager.

Metadata Update from @churchyard:
- Custom field artwork adjusted to None
- Custom field concept_review_passed adjusted to None

6 years ago

Hi there - it looks like we have some work put into voting badges, including artwork:
https://pagure.io/fedora-badges/issue/586
https://pagure.io/fedora-badges/issue/45

I took that artwork and incorporated numbering in. I'm thinking 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 for the numbers? Let me know what you think.

Do we want to have one series of badges for all of these elections or for each to have their own unique set? We could work in a name somewhere on the artwork if needed.

badge-voting.svg
badge-voting_1.png

@riecatnor how do you feel about moving the number slightly to the left and making the outline darker blue? That might help us achieve a more dynamic composition.

Also, the ballot looks like it's behind the hole (I lack a better term for it), not being put in it.

@mleonova great idea! @churchyard agreed. I will incorporate both pieces of feedback :)

@bex @churchyard @dmalcolm - thanks for the review. @mleonova and I took a look at this during our meeting and are happy with the artwork as well. Please confirm the numbering I suggested and I can create the artwork: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50.

There was also some discussion of whether or not to create unique sets for different regular elections. IMO, I think that this would be more labour intensive for badge artists, and would flood the badges page with very similar looking badges, when one set will do the job efficiently. This would also keep what an individual voted on more anonymous. Thoughts?

Agreed with not creating unique sets for different regular elections

Not sure if 50 makes sense, but I guess that if there are coule elections per release, it is possible to gain 50 over several years.

Ok - here's all of them. Setting artwork to approved!

badge-voting-50.png
badge-voting-50.svg

badge-voting-25.pngbadge-voting-25.svg

badge-voting-10.pngbadge-voting-10.svg

badge-voting-5.png
badge-voting-5.svg

badge-voting.png
badge-voting.svg

Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue tagged with: artwork-approved

6 years ago

Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Custom field artwork adjusted to approved (was: None)

6 years ago

I get the impression this should be tagged ready to push. What's blocking it?

I get the impression this should be tagged ready to push. What's blocking it?

Mostly the fact that we're going with per-election-cycle badges (see #651). It's simpler from a code perspective and provides a better incentive for voting (because it provides an immediate reward). The voting app has code merged for allowing voters to claim their badge; this should be in the prod version by the time the F30 elections happen.

I suggest closing this issue.

Metadata Update from @smeragoel:
- Issue tagged with: review

2 years ago

Issue tagged with: AW: needed

2 years ago

Seems like the precedent has been set based on bcotton's comment. Closing this as duplicate

Metadata Update from @riecatnor:
- Issue close_status updated to: duplicate
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

2 years ago

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