The OTW has developed a tradition for elections, that we run a couple of public chat sessions with all the candidates. The transcript is posted afterwards for those who missed it. We'll be changing the format slightly this year. As the org grows and the number of voters increases, we need to make sure everyone gets a fair chance to participate.

The timing of the chat sessions is determined by the candidates themselves. Depending on their availability, the Elections Officer picks the best time that suits as many of them as possible. Each chat will last one hour.

We had a lot of questions submitted to the candidates by voters last year, and we're expecting even more this year. We all want to know what they think of the particular area of the organization we care about.

The Elections workgroup has begun advance planning for our next election in November and in the interests of transparency, we'd like to point out a few useful links. Our FAQs have been updated, with further updates coming soon, and the timeline for 2012 is now available.

The OTW Board has had a number of discussions in the past months related to elections and Board workload. We'd like to talk about the three main results of these talks: we have decided to