Finally, after many complications and several hundreds of bytes of data exchanged between the involved (wow!), it is my pleasure to announce the *********************************************************************** 2005 DEBIAN PROJECT LEADER ELECTION IRC DEBATE *********************************************************************** The 2005 DPL IRC Debate will be held on Wednesday 16th March at 06:00 UTC. We apologise to all who are inconvenienced by this time, but it was the only way to get all six candidates together. We will use 4 IRC channels for the debate. All channels will be logged, and logs are going to be made available after the debate. All channels are on the Freenode IRC network: irc.debian.org. The four channels and their purposes are: #debian-dpl-debate - On this channel the candidates will answer questions and debate. The channel is open to the public in read-only mode. Only the debate chairs (Helen Faulkner and Martin Krafft), and the DPL candidates will be voiced. #debian-dpl-discuss - This channel will be open for general discussion of matters relating to the debate. As well as discussion of the debate, anyone may post a question for the candidates to this channel. We will choose some of the questions posted to ask the candidates during the course of the debate. A number of volunteers will monitor the channel to make sure that it stays productive. Anyone behaving in a sufficiently disruptive way will be devoiced or removed from the channel (not that we expect this to happen). #debian-dpl-replies - This channel will be used to collect the replies of the candidates to the questions asked in the first part of the debate. The channel will be used for nothing else. Its purpose is to allow us to make sure that all candidates have an equal amount of time to answer each question, and to allow us to paste their replies to #debian-dpl-debate in a coherent way. The channel will only be open to the debate chairs (Helen Faulkner and Martin Krafft), and the candidates. #debian-dpl-moderation - This channel is closed to the public and used by the moderators of the #debian-dpl-discuss channel to communicate with the debate chairs. DEBATE FORMAT The debate will run for 2 hours, using the following format: * The first 60 minutes will consist of a series of questions, each of which is directed at all of the candidates. For each question, the following steps will be taken: 1. On #debian-dpl-debate Helen or Martin asks the question and sets the time limit for replies (time limits will vary between 1 and 6 minutes). 2. At the time limit, Helen or Martin will call "Time!". The candidates must then paste their replies into #debian-dpl-replies. Any candidate who does not paste their reply within a reasonable time frame will lose the chance to reply to that question. 3. Helen and Martin will collate the replies, and paste them into #debian-dpl-debate for the audience to read. Candidates may ask for clarification of another candidate's response, although if possible, such questions should be kept until the second half of the debate. * There will be a 10 minute break after the first half. * The last 50 minutes of the debate will consist of a moderated (not censored) discussion between the chairs and the candidates, on #debian-dpl-debate. Helen and Martin will pose questions or topics for general discussion between the candidates. The chairs will moderate the discussion to ensure that all the candidates have roughly equal opportunity to express their viewpoints. The questions asked in both stages of the debate will be a mixture of questions prepared beforehand by Helen and Martin (taking into account the many proposed questions we have received), and questions that are raised by people in #debian-dpl-discuss during the course of the debate. In both stages of the debate, the candidates should follow the instructions given by the chairs. All such instructions will be aimed at keeping the debate running smoothly and keeping it fair to all candidates. Failure to follow an instruction from a chairperson will result in the offender being warned. Re-offenders will risk being devoiced for a period of time. Of course this is not at all expected to happen :) The candidates may participate in discussions on #debian-dpl-discuss as they see fit. Let the games begin! -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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