[cab-discuss] election calendar decision reqd

[Garrett D'Amore]

Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 20:12 -0600, Al Hopper wrote:
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>> Campaigning close                     Sun Mar 11th (midnight PST)
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> I think it's not worthwhile to specifically call out this milestone or
> make rules about what behavior is appropriate before or after it.
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> There are a couple of downsides I see:
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> First, the deadline presents an opportunity for game-players to game the
> elections system by seeking to get in the last word before the gate
> closes.  
>
> Second, I don't think meta-arguments about whether or not a message
> posted during the "polls open" period is or is not campaigning will be a
> productive use of email bandwidth -- my cynical prediction is that such
> debates will waste more email bandwidth than the messages which
> triggered them..
>
> So let's just nuke this from the calendar.
>
> In any event, I'm unlikely to vote for a candidate who spews too much.
> I suspect enough of the electorate shares this view that this will form
> an effective check on campaigning by people best qualified to serve.
>
> (oh, and by "email bandwidth", I'm referring to the time/effort required
> by recipients to deal with the message..)
>   

Well, it seems to me that a way to mitigate impact of the OGB elections
on "other useful work" is to proceed by having:

1) OGB position statements _not_ sent to mailing lists, but posted on a
common site (candidates.opensolaris.org anyone?).

2) a _single_ message sent by whatever election "officials" are around,
notifying the community (via -announce) of the location of position
statements.

3) a separate list (subscribed to by all candidates, automatically) like
"candidates@" for questions and any followup discussion pertaining to
the OGB elections

4) all other e-mail lists should follow their reasonable moderation
policies per on-topic vs. off-topic lists (candidates that violate basic
common sense here will naturally be penalized, I think.)

Anyway.  Just a thought.

    -- Garrett
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