Re: DPL candidate interviews

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 09:34:44AM -0300, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
> 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.
> 
I write this in a very apologetic tone, I spent most of my day just
dealing with my health as stray coughs have now turned into a irritating
case of a cold so I could only now slowly grovel my way to my desk and
check my email, as I write it, it is nearly 24 hours (IST) left for
the campaining period, and as far as I understand we have no scheduled
interviews for the last day, I am not really sure what we should do?

I apologies for not having helped organise this better,
dizzy