Debian Project Leader Elections 2007: Call for nominations

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 4, 2007 7:30 AM EDT
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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.

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Hi,

According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project leader elections should begin "nine weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately."

The new project leader term starts on April 17th, and that sets the time line: Nomination period: Feb 4th 00:00:01 UTC -- Feb 25th 00:00:00 UTC Campaigning period: Feb 25th 00:00:01 UTC -- Mar 18th 00:00:00 UTC Voting period: Mar 18th 00:00:01 UTC -- Apr 8th 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.

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 4th, 2007.

In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC channel set up for the purpose. Don Armstrong has volunteered to head this effort. I would like to invite people to help him with this effort. The debate should be held on IRC, and 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, and before the voting starts, at the convenience of the candidates, and the panelists (which kinda puts it roughly in the nones or the ides of March, I think).

I would like to hand off the actual selection of other panelists (who may or may not be debian developers) and running the debate to the chair, Don Armstrong, (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

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