[Elections] Welcome New Elections Leader - Time to organize

[Ron Teitelbaum]

> From: Ken Causey
> 
> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 19:18 -0500, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> > Hey Ken,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ken Causey
> > >
> > > 2.  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.

That all sounds fine, except that when I asked last time I go only a few
responses.  I'm all for setting up a wiki page like last year.  I just don't
think there will be much response.  I'm watching the Democratic debate now
maybe that would be a good idea.  I wonder if we couldn't get some high
profile members to ask questions on IRC?  That would be fun.

> >
> > 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 at lists.squeakfoundation.org with a password reset request
> making sure to include their SqP account name in the email.

Terrific that sounds good.  

It would be nice if we could announce the election tomorrow.  It would be
good to wait for Göran to read the emails approve and announce all this.

Thanks Ken for all your work and for participating!  

Ron