I hereby nominate myself for the position of DPL. On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 10:09:33AM -0600, Debian Project Secretary wrote: > Hi, > > According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project > leader elections should begin "nine weeks before the leadership post > becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately." > > The new project leader term starts on April 17th, and that > sets the time line: > Nomination period: Feb 4th 00:00:01 UTC -- Feb 25th 00:00:00 UTC > Campaigning period: Feb 25th 00:00:01 UTC -- Mar 18th 00:00:00 UTC > Voting period: Mar 18th 00:00:01 UTC -- Apr 8th 00:00:00 UTC > > Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution, > but, just to review: there's a three week period when interested > developers nominate themselves, followed by a three week period with > no nominations [intended for campaigning], followed by three weeks > for the election itself. > > Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution, > but, just to review: there's a three week period when interested > developers nominate themselves, followed by a three week period with > no nominations [intended for campaigning], followed by three weeks > for the election itself. > > I intend to collect platform statements from the candidates, > and publish them on a known location (somewhere under > www.debian.org/vote) at the end of the nomination period and the > beginning of the campaign. > > I suggest that the candidates send the platform, preferably in > HTML/SGML, to the secretary at least a couple of days before the > publication date. > > This should give the candidates enough time to craft their > platforms, I should think. The format of the web page is open to > discussion, but I suggest there be at least three sections: > a) Introduction/Biography > b) Major Goal/ Meat of the platform, > c) Rebuttal. > > After the publication, there share be a one week period for > each candidate to create a rebuttal, and the rebuttals shall be > published on Mar 4th, 2007. > > In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC > channel set up for the purpose. Don Armstrong has volunteered to head > this effort. I would like to invite people to help him with this > effort. The debate should be held on IRC, and the time to do so > would be after the rebuttals have been posted by the candidates, and > the campaigns have been well established, and people have had time to > think up questions, and before the voting starts, at the convenience > of the candidates, and the panelists (which kinda puts it roughly in > the nones or the ides of March, I think). > > I would like to hand off the actual selection of other > panelists (who may or may not be debian developers) and running the > debate to the chair, Don Armstrong, (to minimize any hint of > collusion with current office holders, including me). I hereby > invite volunteers for the debate chair and panelists; these > volunteers shall be responsible for setting the rules for the debate > and selecting the questions for the candidates. > > Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) > debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. > > Thanks, > > manoj > > -- > "On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a'BREAK' - > everything else having been assigned functions by GnuEMACS." - > Tarl Neustaedter > Debian Project Secretary <srivasta@debian.org> <http://vote.debian.org//> > 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22
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