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.

Hi, this is Julia, the lead for the OTW's Survey Workgroup. I wanted to let you know that we will be skipping our regularly scheduled Survey Sunday post this week. The reason for the delay is actually very good news: a new statistics expert has recently joined our workgroup and is now helping us review our methodology. We have decided to rework our planned posts according to these new guidelines to make better and more meaningful use of the data.

Are you curious about what sorts of information the OTW puts out? Want to point us to useful resources for fans? Want a guide to OTW posts? Check out the OTW's new Pinboard account!

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