The first thing we need is a fixed schedule for the elections. Since the Board historically has either created this schedule or approved it I think it might be good in the future for the Board to just create this schedule and publish it in advance of upcoming elections so the Board isn't waiting for someone else to volunteer to do it. Here is a proposed schedule for your approval and publication with or without modifications. Just to get the ball rolling since we are now getting really short on time to get it done within 30 days of the release. October 23-31 Nominations Open/Collect Questions for Questionnaire* November 1 Publish Questionnaire* November 1-10 Organize/Schedule Town Halls November 2-8 Candidates Respond to Questionnaires* November 10 Publish Questionnaire Responses* November 13-19 Town Halls November 20-28 Voting Period * depends on someone volunteering to do the work, otherwise there won't be questionnaires The questionnaires I think entirely should depend on someone volunteering to process them. We need to ask the community for a volunteer and if we don't get one drop them from the schedule. We should also request a volunteer to organize/schedule the town halls. I'm available to help them with information about how we've done that in the past. There are really two parts to this task. Once candidates in the three elections are known scheduling of the town halls can begin. This is normally a difficult task. Getting 5-10 busy people together multiple times in one week is just hard. Given past history I would recommend doing only one town hall for each election but possibly lengthening it a bit to maybe 90 minutes. We normally seem to have 20-30 people attend town halls live and when there have been two per election that group of 20-30 people has largely been the same group at both town halls. Once the town halls have been scheduled then moderators for each need to be arranged. This is normally a very easy task as I've normally had more volunteers to be moderators than I've had slots to fill. What to do if no one volunteers to organize/schedule the town halls? My suggestion is that if that happens then each governance body should do this scheduling however it sees fit for the town hall(s) for its candidates. John _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
