Hi, We are one week into the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader. The new project leader term starts on April 17th, and that sets the time line: Nomination period: Feb 7th 00:00:01 UTC -- Feb 28th 00:00:00 UTC Campaigning period: Feb 28th 00:00:01 UTC -- Mar 21st 00:00:00 UTC Voting period: Mar 21st 00:00:01 UTC -- Apr 11th 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. 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 7th, 2005. I would like to thank Helen Faulkner and Martin F. Krafft for agreeing to take over the stewardship of the DPL debates this year; they shall announce the venue, date, and format of this years debate at their convenience. Please direct all concerns about the debate to them. Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. Thanks, manoj -- Calm down -- it's only ones and zeros. Debian Project Secretary <secretary@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/vote/2005/vote_001> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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