Debianism: voting to prioritize diversity over freedom and security

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Debian elections are under way.

The nominations were due on Friday the 13th and only one person nominated.  People still have to vote, it is a choice between accepting and rejecting the candidate.

The candidate is the wife of a male developer but she does not declare the conflict of interest.

In parallel, there is a public CIVS poll where anybody can now cast a vote.  The community poll also includes Dr Norbert Preining

Having nominated on Friday the 13th, the votes finish on 17 April, the anniversary of a notorious Debian death that took place on our wedding day.  This was the source of a lot of the conflict in the community over 15 years now.

Sruthi Chandran has said she wants to focus on diversity and there is a big risk that more developers will be humiliated or blackmailed.

Sruthi Chandran is one of the DebConf organising committee but they never provided any public report when Abraham Raji died at DebConf.  When two workers at Amnesty International died they had external consultants prepare independent reports about the workplace.

Please use the debian-vote (subscribe) mailing list to ask questions of the candidate(s).