December 2010 Fedora Election Plan

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 08:58, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> 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
> * depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there
> won't be questionnaires
>

I propose that we accept this schedule as proposed. We only see about
the same 8 people at the town-halls and probably the same 150 people
voting every year so trying to work around holidays does not seem to
be gaining us much.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
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