Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 18 mars 2008, à 09:11 +0100, Pascal Bleser a écrit :
> Vincent Untz wrote:
> [...]
> | GNOME: http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/
> |
> | In GNOME, there's a Membership & Election Committee which is independent
> | from the Board. It handles all applications for membership that people
> | send and organizes the elections. Only members can vote.
>
> And who determines the composition of the membership and/or election
> committee ? The board ? :)

There's obviously a bootstrapping problem ;-) I don't know how this was
handled for the GNOME Foundation (I wasn't involved at that time).
Federico might know, though.

After the bootstrap, the committee periodically sends a call for
volunteers to the community to find new people who will do the work. And
it then decides which volunteers join. In theory, the board can reject
the new committee members, but it never happened so far. And I guess if
it came to happen without a good reason (a good reason can be that the
person is totally unknown), then, well, the membership could call for a
vote (as in referendum) to do some bad stuff to the board :-)

I don't think there's something similar to referendum in the openSUSE
case, though.

I can also imagine us voting for the membership & elections committee
and create a nice loop ;-)

Vincent

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