[IAEP] Questions to SLOB candidates

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Am 08.11.2011 07:45, schrieb Sridhar Dhanapalan:
> On 8 November 2011 00:04, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>  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?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>
> Considering that I'm a candidate, I don't want to interfere in the
> process. However, I think this is a good idea in principle. I won't be
> available next week (I'll be at the OSDC conference in Canberra [1]),
> but I'm happy to participate otherwise.

Okay, seeing that we have less than a week to go until the elections and 
the feedback for this idea has been very limited I'm starting to wonder 
whether it even makes sense to dedicate any time to setting this up...

Yes? No? Cancel?

Cheers,
Christoph

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Christoph Derndorfer

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