Organizing the council elections

[njs (Nathaniel J. Smith)]

@guido

I don’t know who the PSF’s Executive Director is (maybe Ewa?) but maybe we could recommend asking Ernest to run the council election, since he’s done a good job with the governance one

Yeah, that language was intended as a fancy way of saying “probably Ernest, but if he can’t do it and for some reason there’s an argument then Ewa’s a good neutral third party to settle it”.

Embarrassingly, it looks like I misremembered her title; Ewa is actually Director of Operations, and there is no ED. Given that none of the voters noticed that the text here is meaningless, I think we can go ahead and fix it.

@guido

There are also some logistical details, like copying PEP 8016 to PEP 13. (With what modifications? As a draft?) I propose that the winning PEP’s authors handle this.

Sounds good.

@guido

I would also ask that the official two-week period start on or after January 6, so we all have some time to relax for the holidays (I know I am going to).

Makes sense. The whole process is 4 weeks total, and the first two weeks are just informal discussion + collecting names for the ballot. If we start the clock on Sun Jan 6, then the vote will start Sun Jan 20, and we’ll have a council on Sun Feb 3. If people are eager to get this done ASAP it would probably also be fine to start the discussion period earlier. Either way seems fine to me.