On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 8:50 PM Philip James <pjj@philipjohnjames.com> wrote:
While I'm a huge fan of Mastodon (I run wandering.shop), I'm a bigger fan of using tools we already have. :) Given that https://discuss.python.org/ already exists, using that in the future seems fairly reasonable to me?

There's also nothing stopping folks from starting a thread there now, of course, but I interpret Ewa's point as "We didn't let the candidates know this was expected of them, so it's not super fair to start this discussion there now. It's still a great idea, and we should do that next time."

I agree with that, because otherwise it's an unfair advantage to the candidates who are closely following this thread and know to show up to the forum.

Not to mention the fact that voting has already started, so getting people to invest time to ask questions may be too much to ask :). I do like the idea of giving people a chance to get to know the candidates better, though, so I would love for this to happen (as Ewa said, next year) -- but in that case, I feel there should be some room between the candidates being announced and the actual election.
 



On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:36 AM Maria Petri Betto <maria.betto@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:
I also like this idea. I think the existing Slack workspace could also fit this purpose well. Though a PSF Mastodon instance would be cool in general and wouldn't require logging in to Slack.

Best,

Maria

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020, 1:25 PM Jurnell Cockhren <jurnell@civichacker.com> wrote:
Hey all,
My company, Civic Hacker, can provide a private Mastodon instance for this purpose or similar. I would love to help the PSF in such a tangible way.

Jurnell

On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:13 PM Ewa Jodlowska <ewa@python.org> wrote:


On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 1:00 PM Antoine Pitrou <antoine@python.org> wrote:

Hello,

One thing that's been helpful in the CPython developer community is a
message board (Discourse in this case, but the specifics don't matter)
where we could ask questions to the various Steering Committee
candidates.  This would be welcome for the PSF board elections as well.

That's a great idea. 

Since candidates were not given a heads up to prepare or put aside time, we will add this for next year. 
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