Hi, We are in the final week of the nomination period for candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.=20
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 am going to be away from internet access next week (right when the nomination period ends, so the formal announcement of the candidates shall be delayed by 36-48 hours, maybe less. 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 -- say, by the end of the month? 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 am out of town from the 2nd of March to the 6'th, but I think I shall be able to get the rebuttals out more or less on time) Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to) debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed. Thanks, manoj -- When all other means of communication fail, try words. Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/vote/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C
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