On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lets see what we can do to encourage people to participate in the > upcoming elections which will be held in Dec or Jan ( depending on F10 > schedule changes) This time around we are having multiple elections > at the same time. Doing it this way allows us to make a concerted push > to increase the community awareness of all the elections/votes. For > reference see: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2008-September/msg00080.html I think that this is one of the best things that we can do - increasing voter turnout by not nickel-and-diming their time to death. Especially if we hold the ever-popular release naming election at the same time. But that means we need to come up with suggestions and vet them through legal quickly. > So what sort of things can we do? And when should we start doing them? We should start doing stuff ASAP - not necessarily the entire "get out the vote" campaign, but there are preparatory things that I'm sure could be easily done now. > 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?] Yes, I think that the qualification methods depend on the particular election. For some, it's CLA+1, for some you have to be a member of a particular group, etc. An explanation of range voting would be very worthwhile, including what to do if you don't know what to do :) > Community Q/A: > This is the one thing I've been thinking about a lot myself. I think > we can try to encourage people to ask questions they want the > candidates to answer as a way to frame the election and give all the > candidates a better idea of what the voting community cares about. > > 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? Sure, we can do it in every mailing list, announce list, blog, billboard, TV ad, carrier pigeon, orbital laser, robotic telescope, etc that we have control over :) > 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 voting app is going to grow into being able to do this soonish. As a contingency plan if it's not available for F11 (I don't think that will be a problem), we could use the Wiki for it I think. But this being in the voting app proper is key I think, since it eliminates a lot of the administrative heartache that currently goes into the elections process. > 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. I think that this is a wonderful idea - again, as has already been said in this thread, I think that a format similar to Board meetings might work. However, I'd like to take it a step further, and have Fedora Talk debate. However, the factors that prevent us from doing the public board meeting like this also prevent us from doing a debate this way. Without claiming any sort of originality on what the factors are, here they are for the folks that weren't on IRC when Paul and I talked about it: 1) No method for GStreamer stream of the audio for folks to just listen 2) No method of archiving the call 3) No method of making it accessible to the hearing impaired. > 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? A wiki page that points to videos hosted on fedorapeople (or elsewhere)? Or a similar spot in the replacement for the nomination wiki page in the election app? -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
