[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[effe iets anders]

I prefer 1000 characters of simple english above 500 of condensed
hard-to-read and high-level english though... I think every candidate
should be feeling responsible, and be nice to the readers :)

By the way, you were lucky then that there was no chinese or japanese
candidate, as they have characters that take up in english much more
space... :P

Lodewijk

2006/9/21, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>:
> daniwo59 at aol.com wrote:
>
> >  In the first election, I set a limit of 500 words on each candidate's statement. Despite the complaints back then, there was a reason for that.
> >
> >  Danny
>
> You just raised a memory here...
>
> I remember trying to have the statement fitting in those 500 in 2004.
>
> Except it was not 500 words. It was 500 caracters.
> I was counting those with Word, and I had just a few less than 500.
> I was delighted. I published the statement.
>
> Then Erik complained that I was over 500 caracters. Uh ?
> Counted again. Got less than 500. He insisted I was above.
> I then realised he was counting the spaces as caracters, and I was not
> counting them. So, of course, I had maybe 20 spaces to separate words. I
> was around 510. Invalid. Too lengthy !
>
> I considered removing a couple of spaces, hence merging some words to
> got to exactly 500... maybe not such a good idea for readability.
>
> Then, we discussed whether the 500 caracters should be the limit in
> english... or in the original language the candidate was writting in...
> But I had no door out, since french tends to be longuer than english, so
> I was maybe 600 in french.
>
> So I decided to make an effort, did a bit of rewritting of my english
> text... and got it under 500 in the end !!!
>
> SO proud !
>
> Ahum. What happened in reality, is that the official statement on the
> candidate page was restricted to 500.... but several candidates wrote
> another page, much more lengthy. This is no different from what was done
> this year. Each candidate had the short statement and some had a long
> statement.
>
> Frankly... I find such issue... a little bewildering :-)
>
> Errrr. I like reading what candidates propose to do if they are on
> board. It is interesting. It is enlightning.
>
> And then, if they get elected, we can later complain an issue was on
> their election plateform and they did not take care of it ;-)
>
> ------
>
> Sorry, I am certainly over the 500 threashold here...
>
>
>
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