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On 10/11/2016 01:21 PM, Anita Kuno wrote:
> On 2016-10-11 12:57 PM, Thiago da Silva wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/11/2016 12:00 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
>>> On Oct 11, 2016, at 10:37 AM, Anita Kuno <anteaya at anteaya.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just in case folks care, now is the best time to discuss our 
>>>> election process and suggest options or changes for the next round 
>>>> of elections. I'm not adverse to discussing it I just think the 
>>>> best time for doing so is from the time the last election is over 
>>>> up to milestone one. Then we have lots of time for ideas and debate 
>>>> and any suggestions, if accepted, have time to be implemented and 
>>>> communicated so the process is fair for all, candidates and 
>>>> electorate.
>>> Agreed.
>>>
>>>> During the election is a wonderful time for posing questions to 
>>>> candidates in order to clarify their position or stance such that 
>>>> the electorate can make an informed choice.
>>> To me, that’s the crux: “during the election”. When exactly should 
>>> that be? Candidates can (and do) declare up to the very last minute 
>>> of the nomination window, and ballots go out immediately after that, 
>>> and voting starts. There really needs to be a period when a) we know 
>>> who all the candidates are, and b) voting has not yet begun. I would 
>>> like to see that period be created so that the kind of 
>>> question/answer/clarify process you mention can happen.
>> +1
>> Just to add on to that, it would also be nice to have a better place 
>> for the questions/answers to be stored.
>
> Have you a suggestion for where you would like to see them?
>
> Also regardless of what is formally set up, anyone can ask questions 
> via the mailing list, that option has been used every election that I 
> have witnessed, I don't see that changing. I don't think it is 
> reasonable to ask officials to curate mailing list posts. I think what 
> we are discussing is something in addition to mailing list 
> discussions. I don't think anything ever would (or should) replace 
> what comes up on the mailing list.
Anita,

Agree that the mailing list is irreplaceable, a lot of of the discussion 
would continue to happen here. I also don't think asking anyone to 
curate the answers is scalable.

A *suggestion* would be to come up with a set of questions prior to 
nomination so that candidates could answer in their self-nomination. Of 
course, how we would come up with those questions is then another issue. 
Maybe the questions could even be proposed to the election repo[0], 
starting with an initial set of questions that are then added on by 
others in the community ??? I'm trying to come up with a way to repeat 
what you provided in the '14 election without the burden...

Thiago

[0] - https://github.com/openstack/election/tree/master/candidates/ocata/TC
>
> Thanks,
> Anita.
>
>> During last week there was a ton of great discussion, but when it 
>> came to voting time (towards end of the week) it was difficult/time 
>> consuming to find what each person had said.
>>>
>>> -- Ed Leafe
>>>
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