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

[Heather Leson]

Okay, all working group members should be afforded the same restriction.

Honestly, don't we have bigger issues to manage besides implying all
members are not equal?


Heather


On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, 13:54 Simon Poole, <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

> "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> 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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