[Foundation-l] Candidate statements

[Anthere]

Oh, but.... there was one. Shizao was candidate. He wrote in english :-(

Ant

effe iets anders wrote:
> 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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