<div dir="auto"><div>Simon, why would you restrict members or people with experience in the community/board to not ask questions?</div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">HeatherĀ </div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, 13:36 Simon Poole, <<a href="mailto:simon@poole.ch">simon@poole.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Michael<br>
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Thanks for this.<br>
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Expecting you to be doing this next time too :-): could we put a rule in<br>
place that doesn't allow questions from candidates and current board<br>
members?<br>
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If the candidates want to jokey for position I would consider a<br>
town-hall or similar type of event to be more appropriate and fairer,<br>
instead of giving an advantage to those that get their, typically<br>
loaded, questions to be accepted.<br>
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Simon<br>
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Am 16.11.2019 um 11:04 schrieb Michael Collinson:<br>
> I have now produced a collated questions for candidates to answer.<br>
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> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM19/Election_to_Board" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM19/Election_to_Board</a><br>
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> Candidates, please a rough estimate of how long it takes you and let<br>
> me know. This will help me or future volunteers keep it reasonable. My<br>
> particular concern is the impact on non-native English speakers.<br>
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> Thank you to all who posted questions. If you have any feedback or<br>
> concerns about what I have done, please do feel free to let me know<br>
> publicly or privately.<br>
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> OK, that is the announcement done, but for transparency, here are some<br>
> notes on my methodology:<br>
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> I want to strike a balance between candidate's time and "censorship",<br>
> (i.e. not including everyone's questions). I also want as much as I<br>
> can to set a level playing field for non-native English-speaking<br>
> candidates and candidates from non-Western cultures.<br>
><br>
> Last year it took candidates who responded to me at least 8 hours to<br>
> compile answers. Two candidates took well over that. I had some<br>
> thoughtful private feedback from 3 folks who had posted community<br>
> questions. Last year, I generalised questions as much as I could and<br>
> ruthlessly cut anything that was "What is your position on X" and not<br>
> clearly OSM-related. That meant I filtered out specificity and had<br>
> some soul-searching as to what to do with identity politics. As a<br>
> result of the feedback, I have tried something a bit different this<br>
> year: There are more very specific/complex/perhaps controversial<br>
> questions but I have given candidates some choice in what questions<br>
> they want to tackle - so I hope it is not too overwhelming. In<br>
> particular, there is a "What would you do?" section where I have taken<br>
> a number of questions and presented them as if there were board agenda<br>
> items.<br>
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> Last year, Dorothea put the unedited community questions below the<br>
> "official" set. I thought that worked very well for transparency and<br>
> we are repeating it this year.<br>
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> If you are curious about last year's questions, here is the link:<br>
> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM18/Election_to_Board#Official_set_of_questions" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM18/Election_to_Board#Official_set_of_questions</a><br>
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> Mike<br>
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