[Osmf-talk] Change deadlines and add questionnaire for OSMF board elections

[Rihards]

On 10/9/18 11:57 AM, Andy Allan wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 09:14, Michael Reichert <osm-ml at michreichert.de> wrote:
> 
>> This schedule forces many discussions among the members on the OSMF-Talk
>> mailing list to happen in a short time and sets the candidates under
>> pressure to answer many questions within the short time. That's why I
>> propose following changed schedule:
>>
>> 4 weeks before AGM: deadline for members to put themselves forward
>> 1 week before AGM: voting starts
>> start of AGM: end of voting
>>
>> I hope that this spreads 400 emails over three to four weeks than one
>> single week.
> 
> This sounds like a good idea to me. I agree that in recent years the
> election process has ended up a bit too frantic, so giving more time
> to the discussion phase is reasonable.
> 
>> (2) Questionnaire
>>
>> I think that moving the deadline for candidates to put themselves
>> forward by two weeks gives the candidates more time to answer questions.
>> (I hope that interesting questions are asked early)
>>
>> From my point of view, replacing the written solution by oral or a
>> proprietary one, is not the right way to do. Any oral comes with
>> accessibility issues for non-native English speakers and people with
>> impaired hearing or a low-bandwidth internet connection. A platform like
>> Reddit requires members to agree to its terms of service. The platform
>> should be hosted by the foundation and members should not be forced to
>> agree to any terms beyond those to access osm.org.
> 
> My main dislike of the questions-on-the-wiki approach is that it can
> easily be dominated by question-askers who have some kind of axe to
> grind. But the advantage is that it's an opportunity for members to
> ask direct questions with a reasonable chance of an answer from all
> candidates.
> 
> My preferred system would be something like a website where questions
> can be posed, with each member being able to pose as many questions as
> they like. The questions can be voted on by the members, and each
> member is given 10 votes to spread between all the questions based on
> which questions they like best. Then the top 10 most voted on
> questions would be put to the candidates for their response. A bit
> like various product sites that I've seen, that allow you to vote on
> feature requests. Perhaps someone on this list knows of a similar
> solution that would avoid us developing it from scratch?

The only opensource one I know about is https://senatus.io/ , but
haven't actually used it.

> Thank you Michael for starting this discussion well in advance of the election!
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy-- 
 Rihards