F11 naming election?

[John Poelstra]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:41:01PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:
>> Josh, regarding the F11 naming election...  We're running 4 people
>> elections all in December, as proposed on f-a-b.  But I don't know how
>> the election for F10 (and earlier) were really run, or if December
>> 7-20 is a good time to have an actual election for such.
>>
>> The last election happened in July, so it's not too "off" schedule,
>> but that was 8+ weeks after F9 launch, instead of 2 after F10...
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
>> has the F11 naming election penciled in, but if that doesn't mesh with
>> the overall schedule, it can be run separately later if necessary.
>>
>> Please advise.
> 
> I don't think that is going to work.  Generally, we have the following
> steps for Naming:
> 
> 1) Announce and collect names (2 weeks)
> 2) Legal review of list (2 weeks)
> 3) Voting (1 week)
> 
> If we were to use that, and start today, we'd be a month out and just
> barely make it in time.  However, this time around I want to do the
> following:
> 
> 1) Announce and collect (2 weeks)
> 2) Initial list culling by Board (1 week)
> 3) Legal review of culled list (2 weeks)
> 4) Voting (1 week)
> 
> The addition of step 2 in the second list of steps is a result of
> doing the naming for F10.  We got a _lot_ of suggestions (which is
> good) but quantity does not equate to quality.  The Board wanted time
> to do some basic culling of the list to remove things that would be
> obviously rejected by legal (trademarks, etc) and things that just plain
> didn't make sense.
> 
> I plan on doing a bit of that in the initial list creation as submissions
> come in, but I can't do it all myself.  So I think the added week is needed.
> That would put us past a Dec start.
> 
> We could trim the collection time to one week instead of two.  Most of the
> submissions come in during the first week anyway.  That might help some.
> 
> Pure scheduling aside, I think we need to get a feel from rel-eng, FESCo,
> the Board on when the right time to start is.  I don't want to steal thunder
> from the F10 release by having the F11 naming contest on-going before the
> release date.
> 
> So here is my roughly proposed schedule:
> 
> 1) Announce and collect names: Dec 1 (1 week)
> 2) Send list to Board for culling: Dec 8 (1 week)
> 3) Send list to legal for review: Dec 15 (3 weeks *)
> 4) Hold vote: Jan 5 (1 week)
> 
> * Realistically with the holidays in the middle of the legal review
> window, we might as well ignore doing anything of importance during
> the weeks of Christmas and New Years.  So I padded the legal timeframe
> to push the vote out until Jan 5.
> 

Might want to make sure this is included
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Naming_Guidelines

What about tightening things up so that we can have a name with greater 
certainty before FUDCon?

John