Planning Post F10 Elections

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 01:17:17AM +1200, Nigel Jones wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> With the last slip of the Fedora 10 release I've noticed we are getting
> dangerously close to Christmas to hold the usual round of post election
> votes, from what I can tell the following are on the cards:
>
> * FAmSCo (Ambassadors)
> * Fedora Board
> * Fedora 11 Release Name
> * FESCo (Engineering)
> * FLSCo (Translation)

Is the the full list of elections needed in the next 6 months? Is
FDSCo (Documentation) up for election?

Concensus seemed to be that all the necessary elections should be run
concurrently. As this is a first-time event for Fedora, I have
volunteered to help coordinate them.

Given the F10 release schedule, and the desire to begin elections
shortly thereafter, the following schedule is proposed:

* Now - December 3, 2008: Nominations accepted on respective wiki pages
* December 7-20, 2008: Elections


You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please
consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages may
carry additional details about the nominee which effectively the
nominee would write.

I would like each of the committee chairs to ensure they have a
Nominations page in the wiki ready to accept nominations. Please link
it to this wiki page:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections

Thanks,
Matt


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2008/10/28 Matt Domsch <matt@domsch.com>:
> Is the the full list of elections needed in the next 6 months? Is
> FDSCo (Documentation) up for election?
>
> Concensus seemed to be that all the necessary elections should be run
> concurrently. As this is a first-time event for Fedora, I have
> volunteered to help coordinate them.
>
> Given the F10 release schedule, and the desire to begin elections
> shortly thereafter, the following schedule is proposed:
>
> * Now - December 3, 2008: Nominations accepted on respective wiki pages
> * December 7-20, 2008: Elections
>
>
> You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please
> consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages may
> carry additional details about the nominee which effectively the
> nominee would write.
>
> I would like each of the committee chairs to ensure they have a
> Nominations page in the wiki ready to accept nominations. Please link
> it to this wiki page:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
>
> Thanks,
> Matt

In IRC I listened (a month ago) that the election was planned for
January (due to US presidential), so wasn't it correct?

For me, I think it could work, my only doubt is to be able to
concentrate all the activities someone proposed (IRC meetings and so
on).

That's my point of view

Regards

Francesco Ugolini

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On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:32:15PM +0100, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
> 2008/10/28 Matt Domsch <matt@domsch.com>:
> > Is the the full list of elections needed in the next 6 months? Is
> > FDSCo (Documentation) up for election?
> >
> > Concensus seemed to be that all the necessary elections should be run
> > concurrently. As this is a first-time event for Fedora, I have
> > volunteered to help coordinate them.
> >
> > Given the F10 release schedule, and the desire to begin elections
> > shortly thereafter, the following schedule is proposed:
> >
> > * Now - December 3, 2008: Nominations accepted on respective wiki pages
> > * December 7-20, 2008: Elections
> >
> >
> > You may self-nominate. If you wish to nominate someone else, please
> > consult with that person ahead of time. Wiki nomination pages may
> > carry additional details about the nominee which effectively the
> > nominee would write.
> >
> > I would like each of the committee chairs to ensure they have a
> > Nominations page in the wiki ready to accept nominations. Please link
> > it to this wiki page:
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt
>
> In IRC I listened (a month ago) that the election was planned for
> January (due to US presidential), so wasn't it correct?


US Presidential election should be over in about a week, give or take
the lawyers and press coverage. I don't expect any Fedora
contributors are so involved with those that they couldn't take a few
minutes between now and December 3 to add their name to a nomination
list should they so choose.


> For me, I think it could work, my only doubt is to be able to
> concentrate all the activities someone proposed (IRC meetings and so
> on).

Thanks for bringing that up again. I'll be happy to try to coordinate
several town-hall style IRC "debates" for each of the various
elections, if people think that would help considerably in trying to
decide whom to vote for. I personally find most IRC meetings to be
very low bandwidth (e.g. I could get 4x more done in the same time if
not using IRC). But I'm open to be swayed (and note, it's not really
up to me, I'm just kicking off the conversation). (moderated)
conference calls and/or VOIP are also possible.

I'd hope we get enough nominations for each elected position that a
healthy debate, IRC or otherwise, would be beneficial to the
electorate. But I don't anticipate needing more than one debate per
elected group, do you?

Thanks,
Matt


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2008/10/29 Matt Domsch <matt@domsch.com>:
>
>
> US Presidential election should be over in about a week, give or take
> the lawyers and press coverage. I don't expect any Fedora
> contributors are so involved with those that they couldn't take a few
> minutes between now and December 3 to add their name to a nomination
> list should they so choose.

I just reported what I've heard. BTW, now I know that I know there
isn't a conflict between this two events. Thank you


> Thanks for bringing that up again. I'll be happy to try to coordinate
> several town-hall style IRC "debates" for each of the various
> elections, if people think that would help considerably in trying to
> decide whom to vote for. I personally find most IRC meetings to be
> very low bandwidth (e.g. I could get 4x more done in the same time if
> not using IRC). But I'm open to be swayed (and note, it's not really
> up to me, I'm just kicking off the conversation). (moderated)
> conference calls and/or VOIP are also possible.
>
> I'd hope we get enough nominations for each elected position that a
> healthy debate, IRC or otherwise, would be beneficial to the
> electorate. But I don't anticipate needing more than one debate per
> elected group, do you?

I'm agree with you in that point, a debate is worth a million ones.

Finally I personally think IRC is the best way.

Regards

Francesco Ugolini

p.s. FAmSCo is starting planning FAmSCo elections, we will stay tuned
here, trying to get updates and give updates about our status.

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