Re: DPL Debate [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2008]

2008-02-20 Thread MJ Ray 
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]
 Additional people to help select questions, prod the discussion
 channels, and otherwise actually make things happen are needed too.

slef my biggest flaw is that I'll never be elected DPL [17:02:15]

so... I'm happy to try helping with the debate again.

 Also, any suggestions on changes to the format to make things more
 useful for the voters are appreciated. [...]

Can we collected and circulate the questions for drafted responses in
advance, please?  6 minutes is quite a long wait for the replies and I
feel it penalises people who find the language difficult.  If not,
broonie suggested that there should be some warning before dropping
the pastebomb (a countdown timer?  1 minute to go... 30s to go...).

I think helpers need to be more zealous in getting follow-up questions
from the audience, in response to section 1, for use in section 2, but
that's in my own hands as much as anyone, I guess.

Reviewing my notes from last year, I think we need to be clear about
how we intend to handle withdrawn, late and/or absent candidates (such
as those involved in road accidents).  There were also some audience
comments about the army of floodbots so if we could do without them,
it would be good.

slef I want Mjollnir` as a toy [18:46:14]

(The quotes are from #debian-dpl-discuss last year and no, neither of
them are entirely serious.)

Regards,
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DPL Debate [Re: Debian Project Leader Election 2008]

2008-02-19 Thread Don Armstrong 
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
  Also, people who are willing to conduct the annual Debates will
  have less time to coordinate and plan, since the nomination period
  has been shortened, and the debate would need to be held in the
  later part of march.

I'll volunteer to coordinate the debates again if that's acceptable to
everyone. [If not, ignore the rest of this message. ;-)]

I imagine that we'll end up having a debate some time beteween 3/21
and 3/30, so candidates should start to figure out when in those times
they'll be available.

Additional people to help select questions, prod the discussion
channels, and otherwise actually make things happen are needed too.

Also, any suggestions on changes to the format to make things more
useful for the voters are appreciated. You can remind yourself of the
format used last year here:

http://svn.donarmstrong.com/don/trunk/projects/debian/dpl_debates/debate_rules_public.txt


Don Armstrong

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