Hey Ken,
-----Original Message----- From: Ken Causey
If you don't mind, please remind me of the actual schedule. I certainly have no problem with extending the voting period.
We had 2 weeks nomination, 2 weeks reminders to register, and 3 days voting.
Also we had a very difficult time getting people to step up and nominate themselves for the board. The period between nominations and voting was almost completely silent except for my attempt to get candidates to
answer
questions; I would consider that effort to not be worth the time. Some never answered any questions. And very few questions were submitted by
the
community.
So I guess my suggestion would be a longer nomination period and voting period and a shorter campaigning period. But overall it would be nice
if we
could still wrap it all up in just over a month.
I also have no problems with these ideas. I suggest frankly that, while the elections team itself probably needs to have a schedule it follows, that you not try to enforce on the community only as much of the schedule as is necessary.
- Early on the community needs to be reminded to get setup for the
minimal voting requirements: SqP account, email address valid, certified. And that this should be repeated in all communications related to voting.
I agree
- If the nominees are expected to participate, as a group, in any
events prior to voting (such as a questionaire, or whatever) then they should be notified of some sort of deadline for nominations prior to these events but as late as possible. Similarly I see no reason not to request nominations from the beginning and in every communication up to the point that nominations need to stop, if any.
I'm not sure what we can do since I spent a lot of time trying to solicit questions last year, then when I finally just came up with questions I thought were softballs, some of the candidates complained that I was biased in some way.
It would be nice to have some event but what? With what questions? I was thinking we would just skip this instead of trying again. What do you think?
- Obviously then there is the voting period itself which clearly must
have a hard starting and stopping point. Again I suggest that the information about this be communicated as soon as possible (so that anyone who gets email rarely has little excuse about not being warned) and as often as possible until the voting period has ended.
I agree. I would think that 7 days would eliminate most problems. We could also send out daily reminders about voting during those 7 days.
So 3 weeks nomination, 1 week campaigning, 1 week voting sounds good to me.
That would be Nomination until Feb 22, campaigning till Feb 29 (Happy Leap Year) Voting starts Saturday Morning March 1 at 10 am PDT, and ends Saturday Morning March 8 at 10 am PDT.
Thoughs?
By the way did you make any progress on Password changing?
Ron