stephane ducasse wrote:
> I would really like to see if we can get more people voting in the 
> future.
> If you have ideas or suggestions I would be interested.
First we need to engage our sibling communities. My call for 
representatives went unanswered, and probably for good cause. To gain 
access to them, we need to create and use some common communication 
channels (blogs?). To gain their interest, the Board should be doing 
things that matter to those communities, then they will want to vote to 
affect how things go. Getting an SqP account is not so great a barrier, 
if they are interested enough.

The other thing I think would help (the quality of votes, certainly, and 
maybe their number) is a livelier debate on the issues between the 
candidates. While the voters have an interest in asking questions, and 
the elections team wants to see a nice discussion, the people that have 
the most to gain from it are the candidates. This is an opportunity for 
a candidate to:
- Convince voters your opinions make sense, therefore they should vote 
for you.
- Get to know your future board members, and their stance on the 
subjects you'll be trying to work on.
- Clarify to yourself your own goals for this term, and commit publicly 
to some of them.

Nevertheless, there was not much back and forth. Some people think the 
Board is not a technical forum, while at least Bert thinks it should be, 
or at least one should exist. Discussion? none. Funding projects seems 
to be more more popular this year, to Stef's joy. But at the end of the 
elections, he still doesn't know whether it will happen. Why not?

Daniel
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> Stef
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>> Daniel
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>> stephane ducasse wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> ***Thanks*** for the people that voted for me. I take it as a 
>>> responsibility.
>>> I would have wished to see more new blood in the board and more 
>>> electors.
>>>
>>> Now as I said in the reply I wrote on the wiki election board, what 
>>> is the process if as the 'guy never happy with life or xxx (fill as 
>>> you prefer)' I decide that the board did not change enough and I 
>>> want to redraw and let some new blood getting it.
>>>
>>> Stef
>>>
>>>
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you again for voting.  Our percentage of votes was higher 
>>>> then last
>>>> year.  We had 182 votes from 392 ballots that were sent out.
>>>>
>>>> The winners are:  (in alphabetical order)
>>>>
>>>> Andrew P. Black
>>>> Cees de Groot
>>>> Stéphane Ducasse
>>>> Bert Freudenberg
>>>> Craig Latta
>>>> Yoshiki Ohshima
>>>> Tim Rowledge
>>>>
>>>> You can see more details about the election here:
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/ypm95q
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again and congratulations to the new Squeak Foundation Board 
>>>> 2007.
>>>>
>>>> Ron Teitelbaum & The Squeak Elections Team
>>>>
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