On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:38:15PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > On Fri, October 28, 2005 00:21, Olav Vitters wrote: > > I suggest to keep the official candidates and the amount of candidates > > secret until after the nomination deadline. Candidates can of course > > announce their candidacy publicly, but I hope that when the official > > list is not known, nobody will run just because we do not have 11 > > persons yet (or something like that). I also hope this avoids the > > not-so-known people from responding when they see the 'big names' on the > > list. > > This proposition makes a lot of sense to me. Is there an objection to > this?
Well, I would object on the ground that no democracy function that way and it's a strange precedent. Plus it somewhat oppose all free-speech principle you would find in democracies. > Also, I would like to see a rule about Planet GNOME and similar sites: And blocking the media ? Damn I would not vote for you if you were candidating for a Grenoble's mayor position, that's frigthening... > What do you think? I'm puzzled you don't realize how anti democratic a suggestion this is. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list