[cab-discuss] election calendar decision reqd

[Al Hopper]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:12:40PM -0600, Al Hopper wrote:
>
.... snip calendar related verbage ....
>
> What does it mean for campaigning to end?  Are candidates expected to

While the campaigning period is open, candidates would be expected and
encouraged to promote themselves and their philoscopies using the
OpenSolaris mailing lists and to provide pointers to their blogs etc.

> not post to mailing lists during the election, or are we expected to
> avoid posting opinions, or simply to avoid referencing our candidacy?

The intent is that candidates don't generate an unusual level of activity
on OpenSolaris in order to promote their candidacy.  For example, if
someone generally posted one or 2 messages per day to (again an example)
zfs-discuss, and then, during the election period, generated all manner of
postings across a wide range of mailing lists - that would be intrepreted
as campaigning - an attempt to influence the voting population by
"plastering" their name project wide.

So a candidate would be expected to maintain a "business as usual"
presence on the mailing lists and is free to respond to election related
questions that might be posed by a voter.

> For that matter, why is this even important?  I don't mean to nitpick,

If it was considered OK for a candidate to generate unusual levels of
email across a wide number of OpenSolaris lists during the election
period, then the other candidates would feel pressured to do the same and
our technical forums would turn into OGB election related "spam" for two
weeks.

> but it's best if everyone understand the rules before being asked to
> follow them.

Agreed.

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> FishWorks			"Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
>

Al Hopper  Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX.  al at logical-approach.com
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