On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:18 -0500, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
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.
OK.
- 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?
I did say 'If'. ;)
I'm not sure any event is needed, but if the community has questions for the nominees I think it makes sense for every one of them to be asked the questions in a consistent format and have the same opportunity to respond.
I guess what I'm saying is I suggest immediately querying the community for questions that they want nominees to answer, perhaps collecting them on a wiki page. Then the elections team should have a reasonable period of time to edit those and cull them down to a reasonable selection and present them to the nominees. The original page of questions should be kept and nominees should be welcome to add any questions from that page to the questionaire, say at the end, and answer them. Similarly of course the nominee should feel free to add their own questions and answers to the form. Of course they should be encouraged to answer all of the questions in the original questionaire, but I see no reason to forbid not answering some of them.
- 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?
That sounds fine to me.
By the way did you make any progress on Password changing?
Yes, and no, I'm working on it but it is going rather more slowly than I had hoped. If you have received any more requests about password resets by email, have them email me directly (either my personal email address or the box-admins mailing list). If I end up having to do any by hand again, I need those original emails so I have some confidence that it is the actual account holder requesting the reset. If you would please go ahead and have Laurance Rozier email me directly.
In fact if you send out an email regarding elections prior to the point at which I say that the automated password reset mechanism is ready, then instruct anyone who has misplaced their password to email box-admins@lists.squeakfoundation.org with a password reset request making sure to include their SqP account name in the email.
Ron
Ken