What questions would you like to ask the Candidates for the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO?
Hi!
As you may have heard already, several seats of the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO are up for election soon(¹). Right now we are in the nomination period, which will be followed by a "Candidate Questionnaire." That means we'll give candidates a list of questions to answer by private mail within one week after the nomination period closed; the results will be publish soon after that to make sure they are available to the public before the Town Hall meetings on IRC happen.
Candidates may choose to answer (or not) those questions as they see fit. Voters can use the answers to get an impression of what the candidate think or plan to do while serving for the committees they are nominated for. That should help to get a interesting discussion running during the IRC Town Hall meetings; furthermore, those people that can't or don't want to participate in the IRC meetings can use the answers to make a more informed vote.
Hence we need to prepare a few good questions that we can send to the candidates once the nomination period ends. And that's where I need *your help* now:
If you have one or more questions you'd like to send to the candidates simply go and add them to:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/F13_Questionnaire
It just takes a minute or two, so best to do it right now -- otherwise you might get distracted and forget about it. ;-)
I'll take care of the remaining work to review, sort, and clean up the questions(²); after that I'll send them to the candidates soon after the nomination period ended. Hence, I need your question suggestions by around the 15th November 17:00 UTC latest to get a chance to prepare everything in time.
So please go to the wiki now and add at least one hard question! The answers will help Fedora contributors to chose whom to vote for! Thanks in advance for your help .
CU knurd
(¹) If you haven't read about it yet see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections for details.
(²) If you want to get involved or review the questions before I send them please drop me a line and I'll try to get that arranged; maybe we can arrange a quick, informal IRC meeting on Sunday evening if there is interest
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 11.11.2009 22:30:
As you may have heard already, several seats of the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO are up for election soon(¹). Right now we are in the nomination period, which will be followed by a "Candidate Questionnaire." That means we'll give candidates a list of questions to answer by private mail within one week after the nomination period closed; the results will be publish soon after that to make sure they are available to the public before the Town Hall meetings on IRC happen. [...] If you have one or more questions you'd like to send to the candidates simply go and add them to:
I did some cleanups and added a few more question from the last questionnaire. Find below what I plan to sent to the candidates this evening at something like 19:00 UTC. If you dislike something please comment until then in a way to make sure we don't further delay things (yes, I know, that is a tight schedule, but I thought a RFC period of 12 hours is better then none). tia!
CU knurd
=== Main questions ===
# What is ''The Fedora Project'' to you? # What do you consider to be Fedora's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raison_d%27%C3%AAtre raison d'etre]? # Where do you see the project in one years? # Where do you see the project in two years? # Do you see a long-term goal or a "target audience" Fedora should strive for? # What part of the Fedora project would you change, given total power to do so? # Please name three things you plan to work on and realize while being on the Committee you run for! # How would you measure your success as an elected member? # What are your unique strengths and what are your weaknesses?
==== Committee specific questions: Board ====
# Suppose a user/contributor brings up an issue that bothers an important fraction of Fedora community and he proposes a change in the default behavior of Fedora; but either you don't have personal interest in that area, or (as a user) the issue doesn't bother you. How would you approach the problem?
==== Committee specific questions: FAmSCo ====
# What would you be doing to ensure that as a body FAmSCo is communicating more with its constituents ? # What things should be done to promote Fedora in countries where there is little or no Fedora presence, and how you see FAmSCo can support those initiatives? # Do you see any shortcomings in the mentoring overall process? What do you want to change in that process?
==== Committee specific questions: FESCo ====
# Do you feel that a Fedora release should have a more conservative update policy than rawhide, and if so what types of updates do you feel are acceptable to a stable Fedora release? # Suppose a user/contributor brings up an issue that bothers an important fraction of Fedora community and he proposes a change in the default behavior of Fedora; but either you don't have personal interest in that area, or (as a user) the issue doesn't bother you. How would you approach the problem?
=== More questions ===
# Why are you a member of the Fedora project? # Please mention if you are running for re-election or not. Further: If you are running for re-election, what are the things that you promised but could not do? Why so? What are you planning to prevent a recurrence? If you are running for the first time, in your opinion, what are the things that the previous committee could do but couldn't/didn't? # What is the most important part of the Fedora the distribution? (IE, Desktop, FEL, AOS) # From your perspective what is it that Fedora brings to linux distros that is unique and original? What sets Fedora apart?
On 17.11.2009 07:54, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 11.11.2009 22:30:
As you may have heard already, several seats of the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO are up for election soon(¹). Right now we are in the nomination period, which will be followed by a "Candidate Questionnaire." That means we'll give candidates a list of questions to answer by private mail within one week after the nomination period closed; the results will be publish soon after that to make sure they are available to the public before the Town Hall meetings on IRC happen. [...] If you have one or more questions you'd like to send to the candidates simply go and add them to:
I did some cleanups and added a few more question from the last questionnaire. Find below what I plan to sent to the candidates this evening at something like 19:00 UTC. If you dislike something please comment until then in a way to make sure we don't further delay things (yes, I know, that is a tight schedule, but I thought a RFC period of 12 hours is better then none). tia!
Nobody yelled, so I sent the questions to the people that are running in the elections by mail to the address from FAS. If you are one of those that are running and didn't get my mail please let me know asap.
Deadline for answers: 20091124-06:00 UTC (the easier to remember date variant: have them finished by next Monday before midnight). I'll soon afterwards will try compile some documents that allow easy comparison of the answers.
Cu knurd
Hi!
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 17.11.2009 20:47:
On 17.11.2009 07:54, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 11.11.2009 22:30:
As you may have heard already, several seats of the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO are up for election soon(¹). Right now we are in the nomination period, which will be followed by a "Candidate Questionnaire." [...]
I did some cleanups and added a few more question from the last questionnaire. [...]>
Nobody yelled, so I sent the questions to the people that are running in the elections by mail to the address from FAS. If you are one of those that are running and didn't get my mail please let me know asap.
Deadline for answers: 20091124-06:00 UTC [...]
Quick status update: I sent the questions to 23 people and 19 of them replied with the answers. I didn't get any replies to the questions (or my reminder mail from Sunday evening) from
* Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira (RodrigoPadula) * Max Spevack (spevack) * Scott Seiersen (sseiersen) * Will Woods (wwoods)
If that is due to my spam filters or something other stupid thing let me know asap.
I hope to find time to work through the answers later today (in something like 12 hours from now) and publish them afterwards.
CU knurd
Hi
Me again ;-)
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 24.11.2009 08:44:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 17.11.2009 20:47:
On 17.11.2009 07:54, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 11.11.2009 22:30:
As you may have heard already, several seats of the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO are up for election soon(¹). Right now we are in the nomination period, which will be followed by a "Candidate Questionnaire." [...]
Deadline for answers: 20091124-06:00 UTC [...]
Quick status update: I sent the questions to 23 people and 19 of them replied with the answers. I didn't get any replies to the questions (or my reminder mail from Sunday evening) from
- Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira (RodrigoPadula)
- Max Spevack (spevack)
- Scott Seiersen (sseiersen)
- Will Woods (wwoods)
Max sent a apology, but the other remained silent afaics.
I hope to find time to work through the answers later today (in something like 12 hours from now) and publish them afterwards.
Compiled a wiki page with the answers and gave the nominees 12 hours to check the results. A few bugs were found and fixed, but I think everything is fine now.
So the answers are now free for public consumption on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/F13_Questionnaire
CU knurd
P.S.: Just to make things clear 6 month early: next time somebody else has to handle the questionnaire.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis fedora@leemhuis.info wrote:
So the answers are now free for public consumption on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/F13_Questionnaire
CU knurd
P.S.: Just to make things clear 6 month early: next time somebody else has to handle the questionnaire.
knurd
I just want to thank you again for all your work on this. I understand it is a burden to candidates and a lot of work for you to collect and organize the answers but it sure makes for some interesting reading. For those who don't personally know the candidates you have made a big contribution to the recent elections.
John
inode0 (inode0@gmail.com) said:
So the answers are now free for public consumption on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/F13_Questionnaire
I just want to thank you again for all your work on this. I understand it is a burden to candidates and a lot of work for you to collect and organize the answers but it sure makes for some interesting reading. For those who don't personally know the candidates you have made a big contribution to the recent elections.
Agreed; thanks for all the hard work here!
Bill
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 09:02:45AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Hi
Me again ;-)
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 24.11.2009 08:44:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 17.11.2009 20:47:
On 17.11.2009 07:54, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Thorsten Leemhuis wrote on 11.11.2009 22:30:
As you may have heard already, several seats of the Fedora Board, FESCo, and FAMSCO are up for election soon(¹). Right now we are in the nomination period, which will be followed by a "Candidate Questionnaire." [...]
Deadline for answers: 20091124-06:00 UTC [...]
Quick status update: I sent the questions to 23 people and 19 of them replied with the answers. I didn't get any replies to the questions (or my reminder mail from Sunday evening) from
- Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira (RodrigoPadula)
- Max Spevack (spevack)
- Scott Seiersen (sseiersen)
- Will Woods (wwoods)
Max sent a apology, but the other remained silent afaics.
I hope to find time to work through the answers later today (in something like 12 hours from now) and publish them afterwards.
Compiled a wiki page with the answers and gave the nominees 12 hours to check the results. A few bugs were found and fixed, but I think everything is fine now.
So the answers are now free for public consumption on this page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections/F13_Questionnaire
Thorsten, thanks for the time and effort you put into this. We'll make sure to notify the community that if they want to see results for a questionnaire for the next election, someone will need to take over this responsibility. Your help has been much appreciated!
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