2018-03-29 21:00 GMT+02:00 Kostas Koudaras
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
Hi Kostas, Although the elections have already been postponed, I think you have got offended by my email and I want to answer to apology and explain myself. I didn't pretend to offend you, neither to blame you or anybody else. I know that you are doing this voluntarily and it is really appreciated. I wouldn't like someone complaining about that I should invest more time or effort on something I do voluntarily, and because of that this was not my intention with you at all. I really apology if that it is what it seemed. Regarding the public holiday, I mentioned it only thinking that it is not maybe the best idea to organise the Q&A session on a date where many people won't join. My comment has really nothing to do with religion and I actually hadn't mind to do things on that day. I do many things in openSUSE in my free time, including the board stuff, and you are right that many times is easier to find time for it at the weekends or public holidays. It was anyway not a good idea to mention the public holiday as the problem was that we planned it with too less time and not the one day public holiday. You are also right that there are things that I don't know and that why I sent you an email one week ago asking about the Q&A session. Again, I am not trying to blame you, I understand you didn't have time to answer. The reason you give me now about the different time zones sounds reasonable to me, but we haven't even tried to find a slot that works for all of as. It may be that we find one ;). If it is imposible to find a slot, we could look for an alternative (such as allowing people to send question for the candidates somewhere) or just explain the reasons why it was not done. Sorry again for anything I wrote that you felt offended with and thanks for the extra campaign time. Regards, 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