On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 09:06:50AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Jonathan Roberts > >> 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. > > > > The panel/moderator/audience model would probably be a good one to > > follow, something similar to the monthly board meetings? I nominate > > Max to moderate as he does a pretty good job already! > > If we do it that way, I'm going to be a sneaky bastard and delibrately > pre-seed the audience with people to make sure there are at least a > few questions to ask. Or make sure the moderator has some to ask. My > fear is, a town hall, would be filled with crickets instead of > questions for the candidates. In that case there are other, more insidious problems to solve. We are going to this length to solve the issue many have raised -- that they don't know why they should vote for any particular candidate. If we give community members a way to discover that and they don't make use of it, we have to step back and ask ourselves very different questions. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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