RE: First SqF board election/rotation!

> From: [...] Brent Vukmer
> On behalf of the Election Team - please speak up if you have
> candidates in mind other than the current board members!  I just
> posted a brief article on SqP about this:
> http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/53.html

We now (at time of writing this) have three more candidates: Tim
Rowledge, Craig Latta and myself.  This means that there are, at least,
more candidates than places.  If you've not checked that page recently,
I'd go back and take a look.

However, in my opinion we could still use a wider selection of
candidates and points of view.  I'd love to get to the point that we
have at least twice as many candidates as we have places; that would
start to offer the community much more choice over its future direction.

                - Peter

On 1/14/06, Peter Crowther <[hidden email]> wrote:
> We now (at time of writing this) have three more candidates: Tim
> Rowledge, Craig Latta and myself.  This means that there are, at least,
> more candidates than places.

Hurray! I'm really, really glad that we reached that milestone!

Il giorno sab, 14/01/2006 alle 22.11 +0000, Peter Crowther ha scritto:
Do we have candidates which are involved with the Squeakland and/or
Croquet project? If not, should there be some?

        Giovanni

> From: [...] Giovanni Corriga
> Do we have candidates which are involved with the Squeakland and/or
> Croquet project? If not, should there be some?

I'd be happy to see some more.  Why don't you contact the people you
know on those projects and ask them directly to stand?  The more people
raise awareness of these elections, ask their preferred candidates to
stand, and use their votes, the more likely we are to get a SqF board
that represents the interests of the whole Squeak community.

                - Peter

On 1/15/06, Peter Crowther <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > From: [...] Giovanni Corriga
> > Do we have candidates which are involved with the Squeakland and/or
> > Croquet project? If not, should there be some?
>
> I'd be happy to see some more.  Why don't you contact the people you
> know on those projects and ask them directly to stand?

Brent received a list of mail addresses that the Guides contacted as
"stakeholder group contacts" - primary contacts for groups partially
or largely outside squeak-dev that we would contact when something
important happens. I hope this is seen as such an occassion :), so I
fully expect Brent to send out a mail if that hasn't happened already.

But, let that not scare you from contacting people directly. We would
the community at large (and the Elections team in particular) to
actively seek out suitable candidates. The broader the candidate
field, the more people are likely to take part in voting, the stronger
the coming SqF board will be (and yes, I rather have a strong board
with me not being elected in ot than a weak board with me in it, in
case you're wondering ;-)).

Also, candidates often are wary to step up. Which is logical, because
they are risking a bit of face loss (step up and get zero votes -
embarrassing at least). So, if you think someone should be a
candidate, contact him (or her! We want hers on the board as well!),
saying that you think they should step up and adding that you are
willing to publicly support their nomination. A handful of such mails
should usually help people making the decision (see also
http://people.squeakfoundation.org/article/53.html).

What I would like to see is that a lot of people can vote and that  
this is advertize in all the users group.

Stef

Hi all!

"Peter Crowther" <[hidden email]> wrote:
Great!

> However, in my opinion we could still use a wider selection of
> candidates and points of view.  I'd love to get to the point that we
> have at least twice as many candidates as we have places; that would
> start to offer the community much more choice over its future direction.
>
> - Peter

Yes, and I assume you (the Election team) will set up some kind of place
where the candidates can write a short presentation/"base of candidacy"
text?

One simple way is an article on SqP from each candidate, or just a Swiki
page for each somewhere.

regards, Göran

> From: [...] stéphane ducasse
> What I would like to see is that a lot of people can vote and that  
> this is advertize in all the users group.

I agree entirely.  Brent Vukmer is leading the Elections team.
He's away this weekend, hence the silence on that front.

                - Peter

No problem. I'm really happy that the Election Team does it because  
we are
really focused on getting 3.9 out, and I trust any process that you  
will put in place.

I really like that the team model starts to pay off: the web team did  
a cool job (and much better than
what I started to do with this broken version of SW. Jason did really  
a good job).
So I guess that this will be the same for the Election Team. If that  
could be the same for the harvesting one ;)

Stef

(During the week I do not have internet the evenings so this makes  
everything more subtle, I should fix that).