[Elections] Welcome New Elections Leader - Time to organize

[Ron Teitelbaum]

> From: Ken Causey  
> 
> Hmm.  I'm confused.  Why are you picking people to ask questions?
> Actually I'm not sure if you are referring to who is 'asking a question'
> or who is 'answering a question'.  In the first case it seems to me its
> open to anyone in the community.  At the time you edit the questions it
> would not bother me if you removed any asked by someone who can't even
> vote (hopefully that wouldn't come up of course), but otherwise anyone
> should be able to ask.  In the second case, every nominee should be
> asked to answer every question.  Whether they choose to skip one or more
> is up to each individual nominee, but they should all have the
> opportunity to answer each and every question.  Or perhaps am I
> misunderstanding?
> 

What happened last year is that I tried to solicit questions from the
community.  The response was dismal.  I tried to get people to discuss on
squeak-dev, no response.  So finally I made up the questions myself but the
candidates objected to that.  My thought was that if we are going to do this
then we need to have questions and start the ball rolling.  If we put it out
to the community we will get nothing.  If I make up questions there will be
complaints.  So I was offering as a solution choosing a number of very
prominent members of the community and asking them personally to submit
questions to the candidates.  This is like the debate (questions asked by
qualified individuals) but without the time problem (being able to organize
a time on IRC for a global community).  I'm ok with anyone asking questions
and having all the candidates answer them, I'm just concerned that we will
get no response to requests for questions.

Ron