[Lilug Planning] Dec 13th meeting topic(s)

[quarsaw _]

Matt beat me with his reply but I will chime in anyway at the risk of
duplicating information.

The format is that nominations are made at November's meeting (open to
anyone who is interested) and then the actual elections are held in
December.

I do agree that we could do a better job at reminding and announcing things
like this using the lists and the site instead of just at meetings.

I also agree that having candidates submit a short statement or abstract
seems reasonable.

As to this notice going on the planning list, I don't feel too strongly one
way or the other. Certainly there are more people on the planning list than
just the officers but it it also clearly a subset of the main list.

As to the general topic of communication: I agree wholeheartedly that we
need more of it; both from government about what is going on and from
members who have suggestions and feedback.

-Mike




On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Jesse Farinacci <jieryn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Matt Surico <surico at mail.buoy.com>
> wrote:
> > I am going to post the names of all the
> > people running for office on the wiki in the meeting announcement (even
> if
> > it's only just the incumbents!) along with the meeting topic.
>
> This doesn't seem right. Shouldn't it be announced that elections are
> coming up and if you want to run for a particular office, then you
> must submit your name and optional abstract/statement?
>
> By restricting this to the planning list we're not going to get anyone
> but the incumbents, if that.
>
> Maybe I have misunderstood the calendar. I am reading this as that the
> elections will be held at the next meeting. If this isn't the case, I
> think at most we should announce are the general positions which
> people can run for. Then say there is a deadline of a week or two to
> submit a candidacy.
>
> Either way, I think it is not a good idea to announce particular
> candidates before everyone has had a chance to consider whether they
> want to participate.
>
> > So hopefully we can get the word out via web and email early for this
> > meeting coming up, and as a general rule of thumb going forward :-)
>
> I'm all for this!! Frankly, I was more than a little bummed out that I
> forgot about the last meeting and didn't see a single word about it
> beforehand.
>
> -Jesse
>
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