Hey, my first email to this list. I am the new member, hello to all. "... transparency of the decision making processes, transparency of communication and transparency of work and collaboration processes." this stands in the Guiding principles [1] and is what I want to adress for my openSUSE membership in this email. I obtained some days ago my membership status with the urgent hint to take part in the election of the openSUSE board. Thanks for that. Now it is very hard to fullfill both. I would conclude the election process had to be transparent. But it is not at all. Gnokii was not just a member who was removed, he is a nominated candidate for the board election [2]. The original email "Public statement from the Board on the removal of a member" [3] is misleading and I see it as complete intransparent. I am very sorry to have to conclude the following: The intransparent process of removing a candidates membership by the board is a election manipulation. Removing of a membership account and removing and banning from IRC and thus taking the possibility to defend his position is bulling. Not to mention that there is no formal way to remove a members or candidates by the board itself. I wonder what the board has lead to such a decission. The combination of all this is very strange. Apologyse to those board members, who where in the minority to avoid such a decission. The membership removal is not fair to Gnokii. The candidate removal is not fair to the community and the election manipulation is unfair to the other election candidates. What remains to do? kind regards Kai-Uwe Behrmann -- developing for colour management www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org [1] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Guiding_principles [2] http://lizards.opensuse.org/2010/12/14/board-elections/ [3] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-project/2011-01/msg00085.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org