[Osmf-talk] OSMF Board Election - Official candidate questions now published

[Simon Poole]

"With experience in the community/board" is not the same criteria as
disallowing current board members, who, imho, should not be trying to
influence the elections as long as they are a member.

Simon

Am 16.11.2019 um 13:49 schrieb Heather Leson:
> Simon, why would you restrict members or people with experience in the
> community/board to not ask questions?
>
> Heather 
>
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, 13:36 Simon Poole, <simon at poole.ch
> <mailto:simon at poole.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Michael
>
>     Thanks for this.
>
>     Expecting you to be doing this next time too :-): could we put a
>     rule in
>     place that doesn't allow questions from candidates and current board
>     members?
>
>     If the candidates want to jokey for position I would consider a
>     town-hall or similar type of event to be more appropriate and fairer,
>     instead of giving an advantage to those that get their, typically
>     loaded, questions to be accepted.
>
>     Simon
>
>     Am 16.11.2019 um 11:04 schrieb Michael Collinson:
>     > I have now produced a collated questions for candidates to answer.
>     >
>     >
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM19/Election_to_Board
>     >
>     >
>     > Candidates, please a rough estimate of how long it takes you and let
>     > me know. This will help me or future volunteers keep it
>     reasonable. My
>     > particular concern is the impact on non-native English speakers.
>     >
>     > Thank you to all who posted questions. If you have any feedback or
>     > concerns about what I have done, please do feel free to let me know
>     > publicly or privately.
>     >
>     > --------------
>     >
>     > OK, that is the announcement done, but for transparency, here
>     are some
>     > notes on my methodology:
>     >
>     > I want to strike a balance between candidate's time and
>     "censorship",
>     > (i.e. not including everyone's questions). I also want as much as I
>     > can to set a level playing field for non-native English-speaking
>     > candidates and candidates from non-Western cultures.
>     >
>     > Last year it took candidates who responded to me at least 8 hours to
>     > compile answers. Two candidates took well over that. I had some
>     > thoughtful private feedback from 3 folks who had posted community
>     > questions. Last year, I generalised questions as much as I could and
>     > ruthlessly cut anything that was "What is your position on X"
>     and not
>     > clearly OSM-related. That meant I filtered out specificity and had
>     > some soul-searching as to what to do with identity politics. As a
>     > result of the feedback, I have tried something a bit different this
>     > year: There are more very specific/complex/perhaps controversial
>     > questions but I have given candidates some choice in what questions
>     > they want to tackle - so I hope it is not too overwhelming. In
>     > particular, there is a "What would you do?" section where I have
>     taken
>     > a number of questions and presented them as if there were board
>     agenda
>     > items.
>     >
>     > Last year, Dorothea put the unedited community questions below the
>     > "official" set. I thought that worked very well for transparency and
>     > we are repeating it this year.
>     >
>     > If you are curious about last year's questions, here is the link:
>     >
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Foundation/AGM18/Election_to_Board#Official_set_of_questions
>     >
>     >
>     > Mike
>     >
>     >
>     >
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