December 2010 Fedora Election Plan

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 10/19/2010 10:58 AM, inode0 wrote:
> The first thing we need is a fixed schedule for the elections. Since
> the Board historically has either created this schedule or approved it
> I think it might be good in the future for the Board to just create
> this schedule and publish it in advance of upcoming elections so the
> Board isn't waiting for someone else to volunteer to do it.
> 
> Here is a proposed schedule for your approval and publication with or
> without modifications. Just to get the ball rolling since we are now
> getting really short on time to get it done within 30 days of the
> release.
> 
> October 23-31 Nominations Open/Collect Questions for Questionnaire*
> November 1 Publish Questionnaire*
> November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls
> November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires*
> November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses*
> November 13-19 Town Halls
> November 20-28 Voting Period

I strongly recommend having the voting period during this week, as it is
the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States. A large portion of our
constituency will likely be traveling to visit relatives at this time.

> * depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there
> won't be questionnaires
> 
> The questionnaires I think entirely should depend on someone
> volunteering to process them. We need to ask the community for a
> volunteer and if we don't get one drop them from the schedule.
> 
> We should also request a volunteer to organize/schedule the town
> halls. I'm available to help them with information about how we've
> done that in the past. There are really two parts to this task. Once
> candidates in the three elections are known scheduling of the town
> halls can begin. This is normally a difficult task. Getting 5-10 busy
> people together multiple times in one week is just hard. Given past
> history I would recommend doing only one town hall for each election
> but possibly lengthening it a bit to maybe 90 minutes. We normally
> seem to have 20-30 people attend town halls live and when there have
> been two per election that group of 20-30 people has largely been the
> same group at both town halls. Once the town halls have been scheduled
> then moderators for each need to be arranged. This is normally a very
> easy task as I've normally had more volunteers to be moderators than
> I've had slots to fill.
> 
> What to do if no one volunteers to organize/schedule the town halls?
> My suggestion is that if that happens then each governance body should
> do this scheduling however it sees fit for the town hall(s) for its
> candidates.
> 
> John
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