-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/19/2010 10:58 AM, inode0 wrote: > 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 I strongly recommend having the voting period during this week, as it is the Thanksgiving Holiday in the United States. A large portion of our constituency will likely be traveling to visit relatives at this time. > * 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 - -- Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761 Delivering value year after year. Red Hat ranks #1 in value among software vendors. http://www.redhat.com/promo/vendor/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky9ss0ACgkQeiVVYja6o6M6AwCgrvY9UVXuvKZPU5+o0rQZMXI9 RIUAoJfdwWAWU4dEA2laEklW8w+MFez7 =8Wx2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
