On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:15:19PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0100, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. [...] > > > > This would probably mean that organizing the debate might have > > to go; since the time period for identifying the candidates, > > determining what time slots would work for them, the organizers, and > > the audience would shrink, to the point that it is unlikely that there > > would be any time for a post debate followup period to ask for > > clarifications and all. > > Would it? The organisers and most time slot limitations could be > identified before nominations close and the possibilities announced. > The organisers were already being identified before nominations closed > this year, after all:-
Yes, and even so, the debate was already pretty late during the campaign this year because agreeing on a time slot seemed almost impossible. Shortening the campaigning as you suggest will make organizing the debate pretty much ruled out. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

