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We are one week into the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.
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Hi,
We are one week into 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 7th 00:00:01 UTC -- Feb 28th 00:00:00 UTC
Campaigning period: Feb 28th 00:00:01 UTC -- Mar 21st 00:00:00 UTC
Voting period: Mar 21st 00:00:01 UTC -- Apr 11th 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 7th, 2005.
I would like to thank Helen Faulkner and Martin F. Krafft for
agreeing to take over the stewardship of the DPL debates this year;
they shall announce the venue, date, and format of this years debate
at their convenience. Please direct all concerns about the debate to
them.
Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to)
debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed.
Thanks,
manoj
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