[Osmf-talk] 2019 Board election candidate manifestos and answers

[Christoph Hormann]

Thanks Michael for this - and Dorothea for the formatting.

I noticed that the order of the answers was changed from order of nomination to last name alphabethical. I think this is a very bad idea in the long term because it

* breaks with the tradition for no good reason
* is not going to be sustainable and would generate all kind of awkwardness and distortions if in the future elections should hopefully become more international and culturally diverse with names in non-latin characters or from regions where people often have the same or very similar last names.

I dont't want to pressure anyone to invest the work to change the order now (which would obviously be quite a lot of work) but i would strongly suggest to change this back next year. The order of nomination is a natural and fair way to sort the candidates IMO.


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Christoph Hormann
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