F11 naming election?

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:00:12PM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 08:26 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:15:13PM -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
>> >
>> > Might want to make sure this is included
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Naming_Guidelines
>> 
>> Neat, I like it.  I'll be sure to include it.
>> 
>> > What about tightening things up so that we can have a name with greater  
>> > certainty before FUDCon?
>> 
>> We could shorten the vote to 5 days.  I highly doubt I'll be able to
>> attend FUDCon because of travel expense, but I agree it would be nice
>> to have the name settled before then.  We could even have the FPL
>> announce the name live at FUDCon on Jan 10 if we wanted.
>
>Any chance we could move the timeline enough to allow voting during all
>the other elections, Dec. 7-20, or is that really pushing things?
>
>I suppose that means we'd be giving the community about a week or so
>from right now to turn in names!  Maybe not a good idea, but I'm
>apparently full of those today. :-\

So you missed my first reply to Matt, who asked that same question,
where I said "not really."

It would be nice, sure.  It's not exactly feasible unless we do the
naming starting Monday and cut corners and stuff elsewhere.  And
again, I'm afraid we'd be sort of "stealing the thunder" of the F10
release if we do that.

josh