-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Oliver Bengs wrote:
Am Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:08:12 +0100 schrieb Pascal Bleser :
So please start shooting ideas, brainstorming, thinking out loud. The key questions are: * Who can vote ? Novell employees can only vote Novell employees and the community only community members.
I don't think that's a good idea. Because of implementation reasons (as Coolo wrote), but also because a lot of Novell employees are part of the openSUSE community and, as such, they should vote for anyone they like. The separation of 2 Novell employees and 2 non-Novell employees on the board is only to make sure there is a certain amount of independence from Novell on the board (I say a "certain amount", because 3/5 of the board is still made up of Novell employees (2 elected + 1 chair), but that's fine by my book). The point is just that if Novell is your employer and tells you to do or say this or that, it's a tough ride going against that. That, of course, is very hypothetical, and I have strong doubts it is ever going to happen, especially as one of the board's mission is to act as a bridge between Novell and the community. It just wouldn't make any sense. But partitioning the board members as stated in the Guiding Principles makes sense nevertheless.
* Who can we vote for ? Everyone can suggest someone and the suggested person must be ready to do this job.
Two things on this:
- - I really think that only openSUSE members should be eligible: they are
proven contributors and they have signed the Guiding Principles
- - one should vote for people they trust, they agree with (wrt their
opinions on the openSUSE community), their programme/priorities (if we
will have such a thing ;)), but also for people who have time to devote
to getting things done
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cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser