Paul, The husting (singular) was the occasion for an interesting discussion with candidates. But, as others have indicated, we don't need a special occasion to upload IRC logs to the wiki. Alot of interesting ideas are coming up in this email thread. I invite all to introduce on #fsfe on freenode to continue the discussion. I'm logged in as FreeSoftwareJoe and can up-date my homepage ( https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/JoeAwni ) with quotes. A way to organise the threads...will likely present itself as the discussion starts to require it...
-Joe On 11 April 2017 at 05:39, Daniel Pocock <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/04/17 19:20, Albert Dengg wrote: >> hi, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 06:41:52PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote: >> ... >>> I understand that things do get mixed up, but I think it was >>> pretty unfortunate that an event was announced and then occurred >>> at another time. I found out about it on the wiki, obviously, >>> whose recent changes page I tend to follow. (I accept that this >>> makes me somewhat unusual, but it is a habit that has proved >>> useful when moderating and administering wiki sites.) >> i used to read the changelog of _all_ wiki pages for quite some >> time. >>> >>> Now, I did have a brief conversation with Jonas about this on >>> IRC, and it is possible that I didn't get an e-mail announcing >>> the meeting - my Fellowship renewal was occurring during this >>> period, so I might not have been on the right list at that point >>> - but what worries me is that there doesn't seem to be much said >>> in public about the topic at all. I could be as unkind as to say >>> that an election with little discussion around it probably isn't >>> being taken very seriously by very many people. >> i obviously can't speak for other people, personally i do think >> that they are importand, though i cannot say what went wrong here, >> as i was not involved the organization of the election. > > I noticed there were long lead times between the call for nominations, > the closing of nominations and the start of voting. > > If the time between the close of nominations (10 February) and start > of voting (10 April) is not really being used for campaigning then > maybe those dates should be closer together. > > >>> >>> [...] >>> >>>> i would recommend to ask them directly to take part in that, >>>> either to write more in the wiki or take part in i a discussion >>>> here as i'm not shure if they are subscribed to this list. >>> >>> I think that this is perhaps another problem. No-one wants to >>> spend all their time on the Internet discussing and arguing about >>> things, but if people aren't on this list or on some other list >>> where they can engage with the electorate, then what kind of >>> representation do we have? >> well, at least two of the candidates are definitly here...however >> since not everybody knows all maillinglist, i just wanted to point >> it out >> > > For discussions (mailing list, board meeting, etc) to lead to action > it is really useful for people to propose a course of action. E.g. if > somebody says "FSFE should spend $10,000 on foo", that provides a > specific action that people can discuss. > > I've seen many discussions in different communities where no specific > action is proposed or where there is no sign of a volunteer who is > willing to undertake the proposed effort. > > Regards, > > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
