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Poll Results Overview
Term of Office for SVLUG President/Vice President (Sept 2004)
This poll asked participants to rank by their strongest to least agreement
a number of choices regarding the terms of office of SVLUG's president and
vice president.
17 members responded.
Briefly, the results lead to the following conclusions:
- By a slim margin, the membership prefers to stick to the 2-year terms.
- Acceptance of a 1-year term was a close second.
- The system used by a local IEEE chapter (an elected president serves as assistant to the president for a year before serving as president for a year) had some followers but lagged behind.
The poll had some choices which deliberately overlapped with each other. Everyone was asked to rank the possible terms of office basically by "yes", "no" or "I'd be willing to run if we do that". In a volunteer group, we have to consider what people are willing to volunteer for. But in the analysis, the "I'm willing to run" was also merged in with the "yes" votes in order to properly guage the popularity of each choice.
Some notes about things which the raw numbers don't show...
- Those who participated in the poll who have held the office of president all preferred sticking to 2 years.
- Those who stated they might run in the future tended to prefer 1-year terms. Though 2-year terms have some acceptance among them too.
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