Campaign Season and GEPA

As many of you are aware, we have several members of the GEPA email list and forums site that are candidates in the 2011 county elections. In order to keep these GEPA resources as open and fair as possible, we are allowing access to any county candidate that requests it.

The other option would be to remove all candidates from the resources until the election, but we feel this would not be a fair solution in respect to their roles as parents and community members. And giving candidates equal access helps to foster overall communication which is one of GEPA's primary goals.

However, we do not want the GEPA resources to be used for any form of campaign activities, just as we do not want members advertising businesses or otherwise spamming everyone else.

In order to administer the GEPA resources as fairly as possible and prevent abuse, the GEPA board is taking the following actions:
- The Terms of Service on the GEPA forums has been amended in relation to campaign activities.
- The GEPA email list is being put into moderation mode - all messages have to be approved by a moderator before the message is sent to the list members.

The main impact is could may be a slight delay in messages posting to the list pending moderator availability. If you have an urgent messages to go out, please add the marker 'URGENT' to the subject and we will try to expedite appropriately.

Please let me know if you have any questions / comments / concerns, or if you think any further actions are needed. I can be reached using the 'Contact Us' link on this page.

Marc Maier - GEPA Chairman