On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 8:50 PM Philip James <p...@philipjohnjames.com> wrote:
> While I'm a huge fan of Mastodon (I run wandering.shop), I'm a bigger fan > of using tools we already have. :) Given that https://discuss.python.org/ > already exists, using that in the future seems fairly reasonable to me? > > There's also nothing stopping folks from starting a thread there now, of > course, but I interpret Ewa's point as "We didn't let the candidates know > this was expected of them, so it's not super fair to start this discussion > there now. It's still a great idea, and we should do that next time." > > I agree with that, because otherwise it's an unfair advantage to the > candidates who are closely following this thread and know to show up to the > forum. > Not to mention the fact that voting has already started, so getting people to invest time to ask questions may be too much to ask :). I do like the idea of giving people a chance to get to know the candidates better, though, so I would love for this to happen (as Ewa said, next year) -- but in that case, I feel there should be some room between the candidates being announced and the actual election. > > PJJ > http://philipjohnjames.com > > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:36 AM Maria Petri Betto < > maria.be...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote: > >> I also like this idea. I think the existing Slack workspace could also >> fit this purpose well. Though a PSF Mastodon instance would be cool in >> general and wouldn't require logging in to Slack. >> >> Best, >> >> Maria >> >> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, 1:25 PM Jurnell Cockhren <jurn...@civichacker.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hey all, >>> My company, Civic Hacker, can provide a private Mastodon instance for >>> this purpose or similar. I would love to help the PSF in such a tangible >>> way. >>> >>> Jurnell >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:13 PM Ewa Jodlowska <e...@python.org> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:00 PM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> One thing that's been helpful in the CPython developer community is a >>>>> message board (Discourse in this case, but the specifics don't matter) >>>>> where we could ask questions to the various Steering Committee >>>>> candidates. This would be welcome for the PSF board elections as well. >>>>> >>>>> That's a great idea. >>>> >>>> Since candidates were not given a heads up to prepare or put aside >>>> time, we will add this for next year. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> PSF-Community mailing list >>>> PSF-Community@python.org >>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-community >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jurnell Cockhren >>> Founder @ Civic Hacker >>> https://civichacker.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PSF-Vote mailing list >>> psf-v...@python.org >>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-vote >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> PSF-Vote mailing list >> psf-v...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-vote >> > _______________________________________________ > PSF-Vote mailing list > psf-v...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/psf-vote > -- Thomas Wouters <tho...@python.org> Hi! I'm an email virus! Think twice before sending your email to help me spread!
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