Some notes on this years election

[Benjamin Berg <benjamin sipsolutions net>]

Hey, 

just had a few notes on this years election:
 * The extension seemed weird to me. It was extended by only a day
   (giving people less than 15 hours after the announcement, factor in
   work/sleep time and people are quite likely to not be able to act on
   it before it is too late!). This feels like mostly allowing Meg's
   candidacy to be included rather than actually giving anyone the time
   to reconsider running. Now, I understand there is an interest in
   including more candidates with such a low turnout. However I do feel
   that this was badly managed because *if* you are extending the
   deadline, then this has to be about give people the time to
   reconsider if they want to put in a candidacy. As it is now, it
   feels to me like this was done to be able to consider Meg's
   candidacy. The point here is that such a decision should *never* be
   made in favour of a single candidate.
 * Please keep the paragraphs intact on the list of candidates. Talking
   about https://vote.gnome.org/2017/candidates.html
 * I am unsure as to what the processes was in previous years, but I
   think a few days for Q&A preceding the election period would make
   sense. This is solely to encourage discussions before the voting
   beings in the hope that people are a bit more informed for voting.

Benjamin

On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 10:42 +0000, Andrea Veri wrote:
> Dear Benjamin Berg,
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