2018-03-29 18:59 GMT+02:00 Knurpht @ openSUSE
Op donderdag 29 maart 2018 18:22:22 CEST schreef Ana Martínez:
Hi,
According to our Wiki[1], during the campaign-phase there should be:
1 - plenty of blog entries on the upcoming election by the candidates 2 - interviews with all candidates by the openSUSE news team 3 - a moderated Q&A session on IRC possibly during one of the regular Project meetings or a separate meeting
All the candidates have written a platform, so we could consider 1 as done. But 2 and 3 haven't been done. Taking into account that the elections starts on Monday and that tomorrow is public holiday in many part of the world, I think this is not acceptable and that we can not consider the campaign-phase as done. How is people going to decide who to vote if they don't know who we are? Because of that I would like to ask for delaying the elections.
You may wonder why 2 and 3 haven't been done. I think that their organisation have started too late and we didn't manage to do it on time.
I'll have to add something here. This was by no means caused by the election team, nor was it something anybody could be blamed for. The current board has had to find out that connect.o.o could no longer be used for voting. Plus, the Board agreed on renewal of the membership procedures, and a cleanup of the membership database. Due to all kinds of circumstances this has taken more time than anybody could expect.. This total has led to the fact that a new voting system had to be found, tested and implemented, a thing better not done ad hoc for one single election.
I am not blaming anybody, that is not my intention at all. How that connect.o.o could not be using for voting is related to the fact that we hadn't organised the Q&A session? I would really thank an explanation here, as I am think I am missing something. :(
The openSUSE news team is already working on the interviews (2) and they will be published as soon as they received the answers from all the candidates. It could even be that it is published before the voting period starts. In the case of the moderated Q&A session on IRC (3) it was maybe not sure who should organised it. I have expected the elections team to do it, but there is actually no reason why we (the candidates) can not organise it alone. I have already send them a Doodle and I hope we can announce a date rather sooner than later.
I know that this is not optimal and I am really sorry if someone doesn't like my email. But I personally do not feel well if, after saying in my platform[2] that I want the board to work transparent, the first thing I do is skipping our own rules without any explanation. I really do not pretend to blame anybody with this email. I just want that we have some more time to make a good campaign, so that openSUSE members have the chance to choose the people who better represent what they think openSUSE should be.
Regards,
Ana
[1] - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [2] - http://anamaria.martinezgomez.name/2018/03/19/opensuse-board.html I think the community should have a voice in this. If the consensus is to rather have the elections on time, instead of delaying them for the IRC session, I won't oppose that. Neither would I oppose if the consensus is that the IRC session has to take place before the actual voting starts.
If the community think that it is ok that we do not follow the campaign-phase rules, it is of course also fine for me. But not organising it and not giving any explanation, is my opinion not an option. ;)
Another thing, more a personal view, is that I don't think members base their vote on a campaign, but rather on contributions to the Project. My 2 cents.
Maybe you are right... but why do we have a campaign then? I personally do not know in detail everything all the candidates do and I would like to know more details about it. I think that the campaign help there. ;) Regards and thanks for answering, Ana -- Ana María Martínez Gómez http://anamaria.martinezgomez.name -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org