On 26/06/2019 15:20, Sébastien 'sogal' Poher wrote:
Hi all, This thread is socially and politically very interesting.
Le mardi 25 juin 2019 à 20:14 -0400, Patrick Shanahan a écrit :
* Simon Lees
[06-25-19 19:58]: On 26/06/2019 04:09, Sébastien 'sogal' Poher wrote:
Le mardi 25 juin 2019 à 04:28:24, Per Jessen a écrit :
Robert Schweikert wrote:
On a personal note, I am not much of a fan of the very common "pay for play" scheme and I'd rather see the Foundation board elected with no appointed members by anyone.
+1. I would also much prefer to have an elected Board of Directors.
For a lot of political and ethical reasons, I second this view. The Board, including its Chairman should, ideally, be elected by its community, I think we almots all agree of that ideal. But the reality, that no one here can deny, is that SUSE has indeed a "special" relationship with openSUSE. And the other way round as well. We might have others sponsors and I hope we will get more. But I seriously doubt that we will ever get one with a similar link as we have with SUSE.
So having, amongst the Board, an "ambassador" from SUSE is not "pay to play" (to "play" what exactly btw?), it is just realistic and if we remove it I think it will make certain things difficult. Should the "ambassador" be the Chairman of the Board is another question. I do not think this is necessary and would rather like the Chairman be elected by the other Board members.
"Pay to play" is an English expression, I believe its origin is in sporting where a certain player might make it onto a team not because they are the best most suitable player for the team, but because having them on the team ensures the club gets a significant amount more sponsorship, its fairly common in motorsport.
Thank you for the explanation and precision on this expression Simon, but I am not sure how it applies here. SUSE is defacto in the game with us already.
Yeah so I think Robert's original concern was along the line of Since SUSE gives openSUSE lots of money maybe if other companies gave openSUSE lots of money then they would also expect to get an automatic seat on the board. The counter argument is of course that openSUSE and SUSE's partnership is "Special" and is unlikely to be replicated with any other company atleast in the near term. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org