[Elections] Welcome New Elections Leader - Time to organize

[Ken Causey]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 17:34 -0500, Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> > 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 

I would really just prefer that the community at large be offered the
opportunity and that it be made very clear that this is their primary
opportunity to not only get the opinion of nominees but also to point
out issues of concern to them, really its up to them then to choose or
not choose to take advantage of the opportunity.  However, if you also
want to pointedly ask certain individuals for questions that would be OK
also.  But only doing that would be a form of bias as well, you are
selecting who to ask.

Ken
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