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 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. In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC channel set up for the purpose. Perhaps we should set up one this year as well. 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. Speaking of the debate, I would like to invite people to be panelists for the IRC debate (to be held on irc.oftc.net). The debate should be held on IRC after the rebuttals are posted, and before the voting starts, at the convenience of the candidates, and the panelists (which kinda puts it roughly in the ides of March, I think). I would like to have a chair for the panelists, and hand off the actual selection of other panelists (who may or may not be debian developers) and running the debate to the chair (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 -- Let your conscience be your guide. Pope Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/vote/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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