2018-03-29 19:22 GMT+03:00 Ana Martínez <anamma06@gmail.com>:
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. 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
Dear Ana I admire your passion on doing things right(I really do), but there are a few things that you do not consider or know so here lies the explanation you asked on my behalf. 2nd for sure and I do not remember about the 3rd are there since the days both me and Chuck were at the (so called back then) marketing team that put them there, the reason why none of them ever happened is because of the different time zones and candidates schedules which were never so far got aligned. I read the mails you candidates sent the last couple days and you stepped on to those same issues. Now what really heart my feelings is that tomorrow is not a public holiday for many of us, actually for me as an Orthodox is the weekend the elections end and instead of spending Sunday with my family I will be spending time for the election results and I am not nagging as it is 100% my choice because that was the only way I could find to help the project. Also not all volunteers are volunteers only onworking hours(the opposite I would say as many are doing it on their free time, on weekends etc) so for me that is not an issue and it is unfair to put yourself in that position. As stated by Knurpht ,at the end of the day voters consider contributions not campaigns. The campaign is there to make clearer to the voters a bit more about your vision for where you want the project to go if you get elected, at least this is how I see it. Long story short my opinion on the matter you raise as an election committee member is that things stay as are because I think that this is the best for the elections. If Chuck or the board think otherwise then we should talk about it but I value that this should be done the next hours so that things have a change to go smooth. Just to be fair you are 100% right on theory and I really believe that if me and Chuck had more time available maybe we would have done a better job at it but we were the only who even volunteered for it and this is the best we can do under the circumstances. You can agree or not but all of the above are my personal opinion. Best regards Kostas
[1] - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election [2] - http://anamaria.martinezgomez.name/2018/03/19/opensuse-board.html
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