Traditionally, part of the Fedora election process has been a wiki page where anyone edits in questions and candidates edit in answers. The last few elections, this hasn't worked very well. Jaroslav suggested https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/14 that we replace this with interviews run in the magazine instead. Sounds great to me -- what do you all think?
----- Original Message -----
Traditionally, part of the Fedora election process has been a wiki page where anyone edits in questions and candidates edit in answers. The last few elections, this hasn't worked very well. Jaroslav suggested https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/14 that we replace this with interviews run in the magazine instead. Sounds great to me -- what do you all think?
I think it sounds like a good idea as well. What's the time frame we're looking at?
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 01:32:14PM -0400, Ruth Suehle wrote:
interviews run in the magazine instead. Sounds great to me -- what do you all think?
I think it sounds like a good idea as well. What's the time frame we're looking at?
A couple of weeks from now. Josh wisely suggests that we shouldn't start the elections before the representative seats are appointed, because it's likely that there's a big overlap of candidates.
----- Original Message -----
----- Original Message -----
Traditionally, part of the Fedora election process has been a wiki page where anyone edits in questions and candidates edit in answers. The last few elections, this hasn't worked very well. Jaroslav suggested https://fedorahosted.org/board/ticket/14 that we replace this with interviews run in the magazine instead. Sounds great to me -- what do you all think?
I think it sounds like a good idea as well. What's the time frame we're looking at?
There's one catch - traditionally we had only one week for questionnaires in the schedule and I'm not sure how manageable it is for interviews to get answers on time and Fedora magazine to spam it with interviews in that really short time (unless all interviews are in the same post and it would limit visibility). I think the answer would be in pre-prepared questions - same for all candidates, skipping submission of questions in advance and start interview right after we have first candidate on the list even within nomination period and ask community to ask questions in magazine posts comments (and tell candidates to answer there). Top questions could be then added as addendum to the post. I really like to avoid prolonging schedule as it means - wait for appointees, elections takes one month already...
On the other hand, I'd really like to avoid muting community. But history shows, not many people asked questions (hidden somewhere on Wiki) and we will have comments, we will have townhalls, interviews...
Any suggestions?
Jaroslav
-- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 05:48 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
On the other hand, I'd really like to avoid muting community. But history shows, not many people asked questions (hidden somewhere on Wiki) and we will have comments, we will have townhalls, interviews...
I think the townhalls work much better as community question sessions. It gives people the opportunity to ask follow up questions, request clarifications and the sort.
A standard questionnaire for candidates makes sense to me.
BTW, are we speaking of text interviews or video interviews here?
----- Original Message -----
On Mon, 2014-10-13 at 05:48 -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
On the other hand, I'd really like to avoid muting community. But history shows, not many people asked questions (hidden somewhere on Wiki) and we will have comments, we will have townhalls, interviews...
I think the townhalls work much better as community question sessions. It gives people the opportunity to ask follow up questions, request clarifications and the sort.
A standard questionnaire for candidates makes sense to me.
BTW, are we speaking of text interviews or video interviews here?
Text interviews but I'd say if anyone will be interested in audio/ video interview, I don't have any issue with that. But let's not overcommit.
Jaroslav
-- Thanks, Warm regards, Ankur (FranciscoD)
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
Join Fedora! Come talk to us! http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Join_SIG
-- marketing mailing list marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:34:08AM +0100, Ankur Sinha wrote:
I think the townhalls work much better as community question sessions. It gives people the opportunity to ask follow up questions, request clarifications and the sort.
I don't think we'll cancel the townhalls, but as real-time events, they're not something everyone interested can attend. Also, although many of us hang out on IRC all day, others don't or can't, making them somewhat obscure in the grand scheme of things — especially with the visibility I'd like these elections to have. Of course everyone can read the logs, but that's often put off for later, indefinitely. :)
There's one catch - traditionally we had only one week for questionnaires in the schedule and I'm not sure how manageable it is for interviews to get answers on time and Fedora magazine to spam it with interviews in that really short time (unless all interviews are in the same post and it would limit visibility). I think the answer would be in pre-prepared questions - same for all candidates, skipping submission of questions in advance and start interview right after we have first candidate on the list even within nomination period and ask community to ask questions in magazine posts comments (and tell candidates to answer there).
This is really the only fair way to do it:
- The same set of questions for each candidate - They don't have to be in one post, but they should be posted all together so that no one person gets more visibility than the others.
At that point, it's a pretty low-effort job for someone to simply edit and post.
marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org
-
Ankur Sinha -
Jaroslav Reznik -
Matthew Miller -
Ruth Suehle