Re: [Fwd: Re: Beginning of the 2005 GNOME Foundation elections]

["Vincent Untz" <vuntz gnome org>]

On Wed, November 16, 2005 10:33, Quim Gil wrote:
>
>> If the announce was not clear or if the informations can not be easily
>> found, please send a mail to the committee so it can be improved next
>> year.
>
> An improvement would be to include some comments on the "campaign". I
> don't know if it should be about rules or netiquette. For instance:
>
> - Recommendation to send a brief email announcing the will to present
> candidacy.

Isn't sending the nomination mail better? :-) But I understand what you
mean (announcing the will is easy & fast to do).

> - Allowed use of lists and etc to introduce and promote candidacies.

Well, foundation-list is here for that. I'm not sure this would be
appropriate on other lists.

<quote page="http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/2005/rules.html";>
 All discussion related to the elections should be held on
 foundation-list gnome org  Members are invited to ask questions to
 one or all candidates on that list.
</quote>

> - Access to planet.gnome.org (at least during the eection period) to
> those candidates with blog.

They already have access: since they're candidates, they're Foundation
members and so they can be on the planet. Sending a mail to Jeff is
enough. People might now know it, though.

> - Cool and uncool (?) ways to introduce and promote your candidacy.

Not sure what you mean here :-)

> This would help disoriented new candidates (like myself) moving
> appropriately between silence and abuse or offtopic.

So, it seems you're looking for a "candidate howto" :-)
This sounds like a good idea. I'm adding an item to the committee todo
list.

Vincent

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