Re: [docbook-tc] Members I've contacted...

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Mary McRae wrote:

> Don't count on it. Like most things, people either vote when they get
> the initial notice (a handful), or they vote when the reminder goes out
> (the majority of voters). The reminder notice is sent to go out on the
> 27th. I've toyed with the idea of sending the reminder notice sooner,
> but then people will know I'm tricking them and not vote at all. All TCs
> go through this, unfortunately. Seems our members are procrastinators.

The problem is that many members will simply not vote, because they
don't know what the DocBook is -- they have interest in completely
different areas covered by OASIS.

For example 2 companies on my last internally use DocBook, but their
contact at OASIS doesn't know this (the problem of too big company) so
without writing to him and telling him that DocBook is important even
for his company, he would simply ignore vote.

I'm optimistic, but I recall that when we were undergoing ballot for
V4.5 we haven't gained much more then necessary 15%.

			Jirka

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