I personally wouldn’t agree with us having a “small” community - more so a small active participating portion of the community. After all, this thread has been viewed 1,717 times so far as of this writing. There are numerous reasons why someone does or doesn’t participate, which I have expressed previously if I recall, so I won’t go over it all again.
As for time frames, understandably for those who are nominating themselves for the role need time to not only see the nomination thread, but also need to have time to decide whether they want to participate in it. They need to uphold these duties for a time period of a year. That is a pretty significant commitment. Plenty of those who are active in the community who nominated themselves waited a decent while into the month before they announced their interest, and there were still those who were contemplating it right up to the end who simply did not end up nominating themselves.
For the election, adequate time is needed for the community to see it, and vote. I also needed time to complete the interviews with the candidates, as well as still having time after those are completed for people to have time to vote based on those interviews.
None of this time is being wasted, and it isn’t too much time - The CFC gets 10% of the block reward to fund things that are in the interest of the community, and this CFC is supposed to represent the community - enough time needs to be made so that as much of the community as possible will participate, and we do have people who vote at the very end. In fact, there were those in our communities who ended up missing their window to vote. Further still, while no one in the community has to deal with it, these sorts of things need to have an adequate amount of time (as well as repetitive reminders) for those who will come and claim it was not an adequate amount of time, that there was not enough notification about it going on, etc.
Which is what happened with the block reward distribution and vote that created the CFC in the first place. That lasted 4 months or so, and had about 5 threads, and there are STILL people claiming it to “too quick” and there was “not enough notification” etc. If we only held a nomination stage for a week, 2 weeks, and an “election” for 1 or 2 weeks, then I would feel as though they would certainly have grounds for their complaint. However, a month for nomination, as well as a month for actual voting absolutely dispels that.
Finally, it isn’t simply those who are on Telegram, Discord, or the forums. We also have to be concerned about Firo communities from other social medias, or even those who don’t use social media and at best simply read our blog posts.