Debian Project Leader Elections 2006

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Hi,

        We are in the final week of the nomination period for
 candidates for the position of the Debian Project Leader.

        The new project leader term starts on April 17th, and that
 sets the time line:
 Nomination period:  Feb 5th  00:00:01 UTC -- Feb 26th 00:00:00 UTC
 Campaigning period: Feb 26th 00:00:01 UTC -- Mar 19th 00:00:00 UTC
   Voting period:    Mar 19th 00:00:01 UTC -- Apr  9th 00:00:00 UTC

        Prospective leaders should be familiar with the constitution,
 but, just to review: there's a three week period when interested
 developers nominate themselves, followed by a three week period with
 no nominations [intended for campaigning], followed by three weeks
 for the election itself.

        I intend to collect platform statements from the candidates,
 and publish them on a known location (somewhere under
 http://www.debian.org/vote) at the end of the nomination period and the
 beginning of the campaign.

        I suggest that the candidates send the platform, preferably in
 HTML/SGML, to the secretary at least a couple of days before the
 publication date.

        This should give the candidates enough time to craft their
 platforms, I should think. The format of the web page is open to
 discussion, but I suggest there be at least three sections:
  a) Introduction/Biography
  b) Major Goal/ Meat of the platform,
  c) Rebuttal.

        After the publication, there share be a one week period for
 each candidate to create a rebuttal, and the rebuttals shall be
 published on Mar 5th, 2006.

       In the past, we have conducted DPL debates on a special IRC
 channel set up for the purpose. Perhaps we should set up one this
 year as well, though so far there have been no volunteers for
 moderators.  The time to do so would be after the rebuttals have been
 posted by the candidates, and the campaigns have been well
 established, and people have had time to think up questions. If we do
 end up having a debate, I would like to invite people to be panelists
 for the IRC debate. The debate should be held on IRC after the
 rebuttals are posted, and before the voting starts, at the
 convenience of the candidates, and the panelists (which kinda puts it
 roughly in the ides of March, I think).

        I would like to have a chair for the panelists, and hand off
 the actual selection of other panelists (who may or may not be debian
 developers) and running the debate to the chair (to minimize any hint
 of collusion with current office holders, including me).  I hereby
 invite volunteers for the debate chair and panelists; these
 volunteers shall be responsible for setting the rules for the debate
 and selecting the questions for the candidates.

        Please make sure that nominations are sent to (or cc:'d to)
 debian-vote, and are cryptographically signed.

        Thanks,

        manoj

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