On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Justin W. Flory <jflory7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello all, > > Now that the elections are closer, I had questions to add to the > questionnaire, but the period is already over; I propose combining > questionnaire / nomination periods and making the campaign and voting > periods separate for future elections. > > I had specific questions to add for Mindshare since Mindshare is > discussed more often now and some people in the community are likely now > learning about it for the first time. > > This led me to believe that the way the election cycles are structured > now might put off people from participating inadvertently. If I'm > somewhat current on what's happening and feel this way, I believe it's > likely others who aren't as current may face the same experience. > > My proposal for a new cycle is: > > 1. Questionnaire / nomination period: 3 weeks As far as I remember the discussion we had when solving https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/135 ticket, one of the concerns was to have the Questionnaire completed before we start with the nomination period to let candidates know what they have to answer before they nominate. I do not mean I am opposed to the proposal to change this, I am just bringing this for consideration to be more consistent with our decisions. > 2. Campaign period: 2 weeks > 3. Voting period: 2 weeks > > Before formalizing this as a ticket, I wanted to bring it up for > discussion on the mailing list. Does the separation of the nomination / > campaign period make sense? Is it something worth trying? >From my point of view, the Campaign period has never worked. I rarely saw any activity from candidates side to promote them self. The period was typically used to put together answers on questions from Questionnaire and publish these as an interview. So, I am not sure whether the separation of the nomination and campaign period helps somehow. If the campaign will be based just on the interview/questionnaire, as it is now, then we can perhaps shrink this period to just one week. Jan > Thanks for your time! > > -- > Cheers, > Justin W. Flory > jflory7@xxxxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ > council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
