[IAEP] Questions to SLOB candidates

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Am 07.11.2011 19:42, schrieb Bert Freudenberg:
> On 07.11.2011, at 14:04, Christoph Derndorfer wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Sascha, you make an excellent point here, I was thinking along the same lines when I re-read the various candidate statements this morning.
>>
>> Personally I'd also be interested in taking this one step further and creating a lively debate. Two ideas I've been thinking about are:
>>
>> (a) An IRC discussion with all the candidates next Tuesday or Wednesday before the election starts. This would give all Sugar Labs members a chance to directly interact with the candidates by asking questions. Additionally it could lead to some interesting discussions among the candidates whereas I fear that discussions here on the list will be more unidirectional (e.g. with the candidates simply answering the questions Sascha mentions below but not commenting on each other's answers and ideas).
>> (b) Organizing a Skype, Gtalk, or Google+ Hangout session with the same purpose. While text-based communication has some advantages (e.g. it's easy to search, reference, etc.) I personally really like hearing people's voices and real-time reactions to discussions and arguments.
>>
>> For all these things we could use a wiki page or even something like Google Moderator (http://moderator.appspot.com/) to collect questions from the community in advance.
>>
>> Thoughts anyone?
>
> Well, I for one am much more inclined to vote for those who earned my trust previously, rather than for the "winner" of an election discussion. I'm glad people are willing to serve on the board at all, since there generally is little reward, only more work and blame. Thanks to everyone who stepped up so far!
>
> Also, the mailing list has the widest reach in the community. So if you think a debate is important, do it on the list. Mail is better than chat is better than voice for general discussions. Chat and especially voice reach only a small fraction of the community, which is good for some tasks, but hardly for this.

Hi Bert,

thanks a lot for your comments.

I don't see the election discussion as being about any one candidate 
"winning" but as an opportunity for the community to get to know the 
candidates in more depth.

Similarly to Sascha I trust all the candidates to have Sugar Labs' best 
interest at heart. Yet I've had significantly more opportunities to 
interact with some of them online or even in-person than with others. 
This somewhat naturally gives them an edge (at least for me) even though 
from an operational or visionary point of view other candidates might 
really be more to my liking for filling the seats - if I only knew them 
well enough that is.

Also, IMHO discussions on IRC or via voice are easy enough to record and 
subsequently share with the community on this list and elsewhere. As 
such they're just as accessible for anyone who is interested as 
conversations directly happening here on the list (which incidentally is 
the same process we already use for logs from SLOBs-, design-, or 
tech-meetings happening on IRC).

Cheers,
Christoph

> - Bert -
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>> Am 07.11.2011 12:21, schrieb Sascha Silbe:
>>> Dear SLOB candidates,
>>>
>>> I've read your announcements with interest. They all explain well
>>> where you're coming from and "who" you are. What I'm missing, however,
>>> is what you want to *do* during your election period.
>>>
>>> I'm aware that the SLOB isn't supposed to do much (and agree on this
>>> philosophy), but even within that framework there are possible nuances
>>> that could guide me as to who to vote. Right now I only see a set of
>>> long-term, active contributors, *each* of which I trust to have the best
>>> interests of Sugar Labs at heart.
>>>
>>> What do you see as current issues of Sugar Labs and what are you going
>>> to do to solve them? (For some issues, "staying out of the way" might be
>>> a valid answer).
>>>
>>> What else would you consider a good reason for me to vote you?
>>>
>>> Sascha
>>>
>> --
>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>
>> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
>> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
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