[cab-discuss] election calendar decision reqd

[Keith M Wesolowski]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:12:40PM -0600, Al Hopper wrote:

> I'd like to make a change to the proposed OGB election calendar and get 2
> or more +1 votes to make it official and then post separate announcements
> to os-discuss, os-announce and cab-discuss.  The issue is, that there has
> been no official notice of the OGB elections other than in cab-discuss.
> The proposed schedule is:
> 
> NB: All times are PST (Pacific)
> 
> Election process event                Effective Timestamp
> --------------------------            -------------------
> Nominations Open                      now
> Nominations Close                     Mon Feb 5th (midnight PST)

I assume this ought to be 5 March, not 5 February.

Also, midnight =is= 00:00 hours, and belongs to tbe "next" day (just
as element 0 belongs to the array), so you probably really want to
close things at the last minute of the previous day so that people
don't wake up thinking they've got a whole day when in fact the
deadline has already passed.  It's also nice to quote times in UTC
even though I understand the advantage of "just do it any time this
day as long as you're east of US/Pacific").  Finally, Daylight Savings
Time begins 11 March in the US, so it's wrong to use PST after that
time.  These changes would leave us with:

Nominations close,	Mon 05 Mar 0759 UTC / 2359 PST[0]
Campainging begins

Voter registration	Thu 08 Mar 0759 UTC / 2359 PST
deadline

Campaigning close,	Sun 11 Mar 0759 UTC / 2359 PST
Election open

Election close		Mon 26 Mar 0659 UTC / 2359 PDT[0]

Election results posted	Tue 27 Mar

[0] PST == US/Pacific Standard Time; PDT == US/Pacific Daylight Time

> Essentially I'm stealing some days from the campaign period in order to
> provide a reasonable window for nominations - given that the election
> calendar gets widely published tomorrow.

What does it mean for campaigning to end?  Are candidates expected to
not post to mailing lists during the election, or are we expected to
avoid posting opinions, or simply to avoid referencing our candidacy?
For that matter, why is this even important?  I don't mean to nitpick,
but it's best if everyone understand the rules before being asked to
follow them.

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