On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 18:42 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > Hi, > > As warned about earlier in this election (by someone with better > foresight than I have), when there isn't an organized call for > questions people will fire off zillions of them at random. This puts > an unreasonable burden on not only the candidates who feel obligated > to spend time responding to an unbounded and haphazard collection of > interrogations, but also similarly burdens the general community with > too much email. > > You also find people asking additional questions based on > misunderstandings due to the fact that they simply weren't able to > keep up with all the other email (I have seen this in multiple > threads, not just this one.) > > What will you as a candidate do to make sure we avoid this mess in the future?
This was a simple issue with the Membership Committee practice this year. It could still be fixed this year too, but seems questions keep coming as long as voting is open :). Anyway, for next year, MC will make sure this doesn't happen, and board will make sure to double check it! behdad > Elijah > > > [With apologies to Philip--it wasn't really his fault since no one > asked the general membership for questions in an organized > fashion...but while his email probably makes some interesting points > it very much qualifies as excessively long and spurred my comments.] -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list