2008/10/1 Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > So what sort of things can we do? And when should we start doing them? > As a start is there a general need to raise the awareness of the > election and voting process we are using? > Can we generate general interest material covering topics like: > Why vote? How do you qualify for voting? What's this range voting stuff? Personally I'm sure we have to give a clear answer on "Why vote?" question. I'm saying it because we are a big community and we need to motivate people taking action. To do that I suggest to use widely read means, like announce list and so on. > Community Q/A: > It's sort of a two part problem. One we just need to get people out > there to ask questions. I think this comes down to communicating why > each election matters. Can we do that as a marketing campaign? Can we > "sell" the election process? > > And second, we need a way to organize those questions and resulting > candidate answers so they are easily found. I've been talking to > people specifically about how to organize some sort of community to > candidate q/a. Nigel seems to have taken the bait and has a plan on > how to integrate community questions AND nominations into the voting > app for all elections. The idea is great, but all the candidates have to accept this one. > Nominations: > This was talked about a lot in the post-Board election fab discussion, > and it was generally agreed that encouraging people to nominate others > would help increase the candidate pool, because some people are not > inclined to self-nominate. How do we go about encouraging people to > nominate other people? I don't know exactly beyond blogging about it > again. Yes, it could help having more people in the election. Personally I propose to give the time (a week?) to the people who want to invite other ones to join the electoral process, maybe we could do this trough our lists/blogs/etc. Then each person, after seeing people backing him, will take the responsibility to add himself in the Wiki with all the other candidates. I think it's the most logical process we could have. > IRC Debate: > Another idea floating around is organizing a candidate debate for each > election. I can't take credit for this idea. It should be doable. My > main concerning is how to generate the questions/topics for a debate > format. This loops to my personal focus on trying to find a way > generate questions from the community for candidates to answer. If > you've got an idea on how to run a candidate debate for any of the > elections, feel free to chime in. IRC Debates sounds great! Maybe, as you said, it would be usefull to find the right way to hold a IRC Debate. Personally I think the only thing to guarantee is that each candidate could have his/her time to explain himself, with a max limit. BTW, less rules, less problems :) > Meet the Candidate Videos: > If candidates wanted to make introductory videos can we organize a > space for candidates videos that makes it easier for people to find? I think if 100% of the candidates could make such video (potentially) it's a reasonable idea, but as today I'm not sure everyone could have a camera. We can take the decision to make something like EventBox: a camera that is shipped around the world, but it surely will take a lot of time. Finally: I agree to have a Q/A with people and candidate and an IRC debate (by project). I approve if we give a week to people to invite someone to nominate himself, and, if there is a way to give all the people that chance, to produce some candidate videos. Personally I'm sure we have to guarantee that everyone could have the same rights: to do this all the initiatives that will be taken for those elections will have to be designed to fit everyone. Best regards Francesco Ugolini p.s. I think we have to use, like the past election, a wiki page where all the candidates nominate themselves and give the reason why they are doing that. That's one of the best way to understand why a person will nominate him/herself. -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
