[Elections] Stepping down (and stepping up)

[Daniel Vainsencher]

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I think the first thing we should do as an election team is preserve the 
procedure, discuss and fix up the weak points, and set our timers for 
next year.

As to other goals for this team, I think these first elections are one 
step by the community to working on its commons as such. What other 
steps would be useful? How can we help in this team? I'd like to hear 
any ideas...
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So on the first item, I think one way to enliven the elections and make 
them feel less rushed, is to bring it up often over a longer period of 
time. The other is to contact the nominated candidates and somehow guide 
them to take an active part. How about the following (this is all from 
the Debian method):
1. Announce a forth coming election a month and a half in advance. Call 
for general discussion on what went well this year, what people want 
next year. Send announcement to all relevant lists and channels.
2. After 1 week: call for nominations. Create a wiki page (more update 
options than a sqf article) where people can add themselves. It should 
have a template for platforms (who I am, some things I've done which are 
relevant, what I want to do...)
3. After another 2 weeks: Declare platforms closed, solicit questions 
for the candidates from everyone. Start getting the voter lists ready.
4. After another 2 weeks start voting period (voter lists should be ready).
5. After a week, close voting period.

Other goals I propose for this team:
1. Should teams be elected or appointed? discuss, and if we come to a 
definite conclusion, bring it to board and squeak-dev.
2. What other structure should the voters share? for a concrete example: 
what is the forum for all voters? squeak-dev is high volume technical. 
We should have some other method for board and teams to announce stuff 
to (more or less) all voters.
3. Actually run next years elections.
4. Are there decisions that should be voted on? for example, contents of 
development image. If so, how should those work?

And any other ideas welcome, of course...

Daniel



Peter Crowther wrote:

> *> From:* Peter Crowther
> *> Sent:* Thu 3/2/2006 8:00 AM
> > <shrug> Then why does this team exist?
> [...]
> > So: From here, what are the objectives for this team?
> ... Anybody?
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> - Peter
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