Election schedule

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:44:22AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:12 AM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Hello FAB folks,
>> >>
>> >> With a Fedora release looming in the future, it's time again to
>> >> sharpen our quills and prepare for elections!  That means we need (1)
>> >> a schedule, (2) someone to administer candidate questionnaires,
>> >> assuming voters continue to find them helpful, and (3) people to help
>> >> run any town hall meetings for the candidates.
>> >
>> > I spoke shortly after the last election with Larry Cafiero about
>> > handling the questionnaires during this election. I'll try to confirm
>> > with him soon if he is still willing to fill that role.
>> >
>> > Candidates complete questionnaire: May 6-11
>> > Questionnaire answers posted: May 12
>> > Town halls: May 13-19
>> >
>> > This might need a bit more of a gap as organizing the responses takes
>> > a bit of time and it is good to have the answers posted a few days
>> > before townhalls begin so everyone has a chance to read them prior to
>> > attending.
>> >
>> > I'm willing to again organize the townhalls and round up moderators
>> > for them unless someone else would like to give that a go this time.
>>
>> I'd be happy to help out here; it would be awesome <mchua hat>if there
>> was an SOP</mchua hat> on how to organize townhalls and/or be a
>> moderator so that those of us who have only been around for one
>> election cycle can come up to speed quickly. :)  (I can help you out
>> with writing the SOP, too, but I'd obviously need some guidance
>> there.)
>>
>> IMO - it's good to have different people fulfilling different roles in
>> Election Operations once in a while; it definitely lends itself to the
>> openness / transparency thing.  Also, I don't think we should let
>> people become entrenched in these roles to the point where they feel
>> as though they could not actually be nominated for an elected position
>> because... who would work on X portion of the process, conflict of
>> interest, etc.  (Or, alternately, not go on vacation.)
>
> So it sounds like we have some clear owners for townhalls and
> questionnaires, John Rose and Larry Cafiero respectively.  Robyn,
> perhaps you would be interested in taking up one or more moderator
> slots for townhalls?  It seems to me that would be incredibly helpful
> for John as he puts those schedules together.

Can do - once the schedule is up, I'll sign myself up, and go through
old logs in the meantime.

>
> The actual exercise of putting townhalls together is already captured
> here on the Elections page:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls
>
> Pretty simple, really, someone just sets up the table and populates
> it.
>
>
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