Re: DPL candidate interviews

Emmanuel Arias <[email protected]> Fri, 4 Apr 2025 11:37:57 -0300
Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.publicity
Message-ID	<Z-_uxVSoBFHrGwnf@debian>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 06:38:00AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:47:15PM +0530, disaster2life wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 09:34:44AM -0300, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > 
> <snip>
> 
> > 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
> 
> Sorry to hear about your health issues, take good care!  I agree we are now on
> an impossible schedule: I believe we still don't have any time slot agreed upon
> for the 4 interviews, and we only have about 40 hours to go.
> 
> Tomorrow during the day I am very busy dealing with Real Life, so _I_ won't be
> available then for giving any irc support.  (And I didn't ask for backup
> volunteers for that yet...)
> 
> I guess we should call it a day and try better next year...
> 
> Any other opinions?
> 
> Bye,
> 
> Joost
> 
> PS: Lessons learned: I started 3 weeks before the deadline.  Apparently that's
> too late.  And:  Maybe we should use better communication channels?  More on
> public lists?  Get another mail alias with all interested people?  Use matrix
> or some other "modern" protocol?  Make more use of cryptpad?
Perhaps adding  an "official" schedule? 1 or 2 week before vote
start, publicity team will perform the interviews. As the candidates
knows the period to receive open questions, also know that in the last
week, they should spent at least n hour for publicity team interview.
Of course, if they want.
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