Election Townhall meeting feedback

[Rahul Sundaram]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:32:02AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> Matt has requested some feedback on the townhall meetings that are
>>> being held for the various elections, so I thought I would start
>>> a thread.
>> It would be useful, if we can have a round of Q&A on this mailing list  
>> along similar lines as well. IRC timings don't work out well for 
>> everyone.
> 
> I've noticed you (or anyone else) never asked a single question.  Were you
> just proposing this for future elections?  I ask because the election is
> still on-going, so questions are still relevant to _this_ election for
> those that haven't voted already.

For this election, I had many good candidates (too many in fact) to 
choose from and I already voted without feeling the need to ask 
questions. The idea wasn't a personal request but more for people who 
weren't more familiar with the candidates or were concerned about some 
specific things. I thought, there should be a process for asking 
questions in the mailing list in addition to IRC to facilitate such 
discussions. I know, it is just a matter of dropping a mail to this 
mailing list or to the candidates offlist but unless explicitly 
specified (like in a link from the elections page), people might not be 
aware of the possibility or think it would be rude to do that or 
similar.  Doing that, perhaps would help increase the number of people 
voting as well.

Rahul