On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:44:22AM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:12 AM, inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello FAB folks, >> >> >> >> With a Fedora release looming in the future, it's time again to >> >> sharpen our quills and prepare for elections! That means we need (1) >> >> a schedule, (2) someone to administer candidate questionnaires, >> >> assuming voters continue to find them helpful, and (3) people to help >> >> run any town hall meetings for the candidates. >> > >> > I spoke shortly after the last election with Larry Cafiero about >> > handling the questionnaires during this election. I'll try to confirm >> > with him soon if he is still willing to fill that role. >> > >> > Candidates complete questionnaire: May 6-11 >> > Questionnaire answers posted: May 12 >> > Town halls: May 13-19 >> > >> > This might need a bit more of a gap as organizing the responses takes >> > a bit of time and it is good to have the answers posted a few days >> > before townhalls begin so everyone has a chance to read them prior to >> > attending. >> > >> > I'm willing to again organize the townhalls and round up moderators >> > for them unless someone else would like to give that a go this time. >> >> I'd be happy to help out here; it would be awesome <mchua hat>if there >> was an SOP</mchua hat> on how to organize townhalls and/or be a >> moderator so that those of us who have only been around for one >> election cycle can come up to speed quickly. :) (I can help you out >> with writing the SOP, too, but I'd obviously need some guidance >> there.) >> >> IMO - it's good to have different people fulfilling different roles in >> Election Operations once in a while; it definitely lends itself to the >> openness / transparency thing. Also, I don't think we should let >> people become entrenched in these roles to the point where they feel >> as though they could not actually be nominated for an elected position >> because... who would work on X portion of the process, conflict of >> interest, etc. (Or, alternately, not go on vacation.) > > So it sounds like we have some clear owners for townhalls and > questionnaires, John Rose and Larry Cafiero respectively. Robyn, > perhaps you would be interested in taking up one or more moderator > slots for townhalls? It seems to me that would be incredibly helpful > for John as he puts those schedules together. Can do - once the schedule is up, I'll sign myself up, and go through old logs in the meantime. > > The actual exercise of putting townhalls together is already captured > here on the Elections page: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections#IRC_Town_Halls > > Pretty simple, really, someone just sets up the table and populates > it. > > > -- > 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/ > Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com > _______________________________________________ > advisory-board mailing list > advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board > _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
