Re: DPL candidate interviews

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 02:47:55PM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> As discussed in our team meeting in february (see
> https://meetbot.debian.net/debian-publicity/2025/ ) , we plan to do interviews
> with the (four) DPL candidates for the april 2025 vote (
> https://www.debian.org/vote/2024/vote_001 ).  Five people (Anupa, Charles,
> disaster2life, eamanu, joostvb; Cc-ed) expressed interest in lending a hand.
> 
> I had a chat with disaster2life yesterday about this.
> 
> Given the short time frame, and given the fact we don't have 2 but 4 candidates
> for this term, and as discussed, we plan to do text based interviews this
> round.

Fully agree text based is better here.

> To keep a real time / live feeling, I suggest using IRC (bridged to
> matrix).  Next to the interview channel, we could have a dedicated channel for
> chatter among the audience; with some time for 'questions from audience
> members'.  How do people feel about that?

I have to say I'm relatively new to irc so I've never seen it. I think
it's an experiment we should try. Should we also ask for mail answer to
the questions so we can publish in bits? It would also be a chance for
the candidates to expand their answers or clarify any points afterwards.

> As for time schedule: we just started the 3 week campaigning period, and voting
> starts at sun april 6: about 3 weeks from now.
> 
> As I see it, tasks now are:
> 
> - register 2 dedicated irc channels w/ matrix bridges

Agree, we need to set up the channels and ask debian-social to pipe
things.

> - contact the four candidates, ask them if they're open to being
>    irc-interviewed, and try to agree upon a timeslot in coordination with
>    whoever conducts the interview.

Maybe we all can agree on some timeslots we have available in advance
and send them for the candidates.

> - think about subjects / questions (refer to platforms and discussion on
>    [email protected])

I'll get the questions from last year and I'm trying to keep up with
debian-vote.

Cheers,
Charles