Re: GNOME Foundation Elections - Call for Questions

[Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>]

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:06 AM, sankarshan <foss mailinglists gmail com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Luis Villa <luis tieguy org> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
>>>> Please send your questions to membership-committee gnome org until the
>>>> 27th of May.
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to have this process be public, for example on this
>>> mailing list or on Desktop Notes? Knowing what questions others want to ask
>>> (or seeing that no-one has asked the thing they're interested in yet) may
>>> jolt people into action.
>>
>> Fedora uses a wiki page for this, I believe, which seems like a good idea.
>
> Traditionally, the questions are collection from interested parties
> and, an individual from the Membership and Elections Committee posts
> it in public so as to allow the candidates to frame responses and,
> respond.
>
> A wiki page could form the basis of a collection, sorting, sifting and
> finalizing of questions I guess.

Right; I didn't mean to second-guess the elections team (who have done
a great job as usual) but just to suggest an alternative that has
worked for other groups.

Luis