On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 03:45:25PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > Yes, it's that time of year again. Rain is falling, another Fedora > release is about to conquer the known world, and volunteers everywhere > are busy preparing their ideal Fedora Mission Statements to captivate > the electorate. Fedora's Winter Election is upon us. > > The first order of business is to find an Election Coordinator. For > the last 2 election cycles I have volunteered for this role, with the > able assistance of John Rose (inode0), and Thorsten Leemhuis (thl) and > others. This cycle, I would like someone besides myself from the Fedora > community to volunteer as Election Coordinator. Raise your hand, > don't be shy! If you have been harboring a secret (or public) list of > all my mistakes, here's your chance to set things right! I think you did a great job, but I also appreciate that we should try passing the baton. I'd love someone to volunteer to take up the banner. > As Election Coordinator, you will have the opportunity to: > * propose, get buy-in, and finalize the schedule > * schedule forums (traditionally IRC and with FUDCon Toronto, Live) > * seek forum moderators > * if desired, gather questions from the electorate, distribute to the > candidates, gather and post their answers. > * coordinate with Infrastructure to be sure the elections app is > ready. We can arrange for the forum responsibilities to be shared, as in the last cycle, so that no one has to conduct all of them. That worked out quite well as I recall. > Second, a schedule will need to be set. At the Board meeting this > week, we agreed that it would be nice to hold in-person forums at > FUDCon Toronto, December 5-7, for those who can attend. Our election > rules require us to complete the election within 30 days of the Fedora > 12 release, so must end by December 17. Per Nigel Jones, author of > our voting system, most of the votes cast were within the first 2-3 > days, so running it Dec 8-17 would be sufficient. My recollection from the last general election is that I asked Nigel about the voting rates and it was clustered pretty heavily at the beginning. I'm sure if I recalled that wrong, he'll pitch in a correction here. > Before these, we typically hold nominations for 2 weeks, and a week > for IRC Town Halls to be scheduled. Thorsten also requested after the > last election that we have a few days between end of nominations and > beginning of the town halls, to allow time for candidates to be given > a set of questions, and sufficent time to answer. > > Third, we need to be sure of all the committees who are holding an > election. The committee chairs can assist here. I believe that the > Board, FESCo, and Ambassadors are electing members, and that the > Fedora 13 naming election will happen too. Are there any I missed? I believe the Fedora 13 naming election will be happening significantly before FUDCon, so that we can announce the new name at the event. Although that's not technically a requirement, and can be dropped if desired, it's a little bit of extra fun. Names would be collected around the second week in November and a vote around the end of the month. > Feedback on prior elections, ideas for how to improve this cycle, and > volunteers for Election Coordinator all welcome. Matt, thanks for your previous good work in running elections, and for helping to kick this off. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
