Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 33: Conference Proposal elect2003.cf

Entered by jp2 on Tue Nov 18 14:23:23 2003:

I would like to propose a conference to be called elect2003 to be a place
for general discussion for candidates to discuss platforms and policies
without cluttering up the coop conference.  I think this conference should
become a yearly fixture of Grex elections and should have the alias
"election" pointing at the current year. 

For those of you unaware, M-Net has had a similar yearly election
conference and it is, obviously, the source of my idea. 

Also, due to the fact the election is rapidly approaching, is it possible
or necessary to bypass the standard procedure of waiting a week for
discussion on this conference? 

Finally, I am not volunteering to FW this conference as I am currently a
candidate.  It should probably be FW'd by the election administrators. 
(The mechanism for running an election is exceptionally vague.) 

Please discuss.
12 responses total.
#1 of 12 by gull on Tue Nov 18 15:30:18 2003:

Wouldn't it be better for the candidates to create items in agora?  More
people will read them there.

#2 of 12 by aruba on Tue Nov 18 15:40:44 2003:

Yeah, I'm not worried about "cluttering up" anything.  Clutter is Grex's
stock and trade.

#3 of 12 by gull on Tue Nov 18 18:31:01 2003:

If this conference *is* created, I'd like to see an 'election' alias
that always points to the most recent one, sort of like the 'agora' and
'oldagora' aliases.  That way people could add 'election' to their
cflist and not have to join each new election conference manually.

#4 of 12 by jp2 on Tue Nov 18 18:36:59 2003:

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#5 of 12 by albaugh on Tue Nov 18 19:26:25 2003:

I don't really care that much one way or the other, but a separate conference
for a once-a-year event doesn't sound like a good idea.  The current election
will get linked to agora and/or coop anyway, thus so much for the idea of less
clutter.

#6 of 12 by cmcgee on Tue Nov 18 20:56:17 2003:

I think that the coop items are sufficient if they are linked to agora. 
People can "forget" them if they like, and there is no need to open a new conf
every year.

#7 of 12 by bhoward on Wed Nov 19 01:56:18 2003:

Most folks already pass through at least agora and coop.

I agree with cmcgee that holding election discussions in coop and
linking to agora should be sufficient.

#8 of 12 by jp2 on Wed Nov 19 02:31:15 2003:

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#9 of 12 by other on Wed Nov 19 03:09:13 2003:

Keep in mind also, the part of the stated purpose of the coop 
conference is discussion of the governance of Grex.

#10 of 12 by cmcgee on Wed Nov 19 14:53:23 2003:

Which is a strong argument against bunches of other confs on the same topic.

#11 of 12 by davel on Wed Nov 19 14:56:01 2003:

Coop is where it belongs.  Admittedly, this is Grex, and that's never been
a very powerful argument here.

#12 of 12 by jesuit on Wed May 17 02:14:24 2006:

TROGG IS DAVID BLAINE

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