Debian Project Leader Elections 2006

Posted by bstadil on Feb 19, 2006 1:12 AM EDT
Mailing list; By Debian Project Secretary
Mail this story
Print this story

We are in the final week of the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.

--=-=-=
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

We are in the final week of the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.

The new project leader term starts on April 17th, and that sets the time line: Nomination period: Feb 5th 00:00:01 UTC -- Feb 26th 00:00:00 UTC Campaigning period: Feb 26th 00:00:01 UTC -- Mar 19th 00:00:00 UTC Voting period: Mar 19th 00:00:01 UTC -- Apr 9th 00:00:00 UTC

Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution, but, just to review: there's a three week period when interested developers nominate themselves, followed by a three week period with no nominations [intended for campaigning], followed by three weeks for the election itself.

I intend to collect platform statements from the candidates, and publish them on a known location (somewhere under http://www.debian.org/vote) at the end of the nomination period and the beginning of the campaign.

I suggest that the candidates send the platform, preferably in HTML/SGML, to the secretary at least a couple of days before the publication date.

This should give the candidates enough time to craft their platforms, I should think. The format of the web page is open to discussion, but I suggest there be at least three sections: a) Introduction/Biography b) Major Goal/ Meat of the platform, c) Rebuttal.

After the publication, there share be a one week period for each candidate to create a rebuttal, and the rebuttals shall be published on Mar 5th, 2006.

In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC channel set up for the purpose. Perhaps we should set up one this year as well, though so far there have been no volunteers for moderators. The time to do so would be after the rebuttals have been posted by the candidates, and the campaigns have been well established, and people have had time to think up questions. If we do end up having a debate, I would like to invite people to be panelists for the IRC debate. The debate should be held on IRC after the rebuttals are posted, and before the voting starts, at the convenience of the candidates, and the panelists (which kinda puts it roughly in the ides of March, I think).

I would like to have a chair for the panelists, and hand off the actual selection of other panelists (who may or may not be debian developers) and running the debate to the chair (to minimize any hint of collusion with current office holders, including me). I hereby invite volunteers for the debate chair and panelists; these volunteers shall be responsible for setting the rules for the debate and selecting the questions for the candidates.

Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed.

Thanks,

manoj

=2D-=20 This process can check if this value is zero, and if it is, it does something child-like. -- Forbes Burkowski, CS 454, University of Washington Debian Project Secretary
1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C

--=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFD98WfIbrau78kQkwRAqIZAKDQZoxoRbCar5FbLDdfSzuKmNpNywCfTxwp Y2V8RUw14MxBj8bJKRkvngQ= =P1b0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--

-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [e-mail:debian-devel-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [e-mail:listmaster@lists.debian.org]

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.