El mié, 23-05-2007 a las 17:28 +0200, jdd escribió:
Adrian Schröter wrote:
* "the openSUSE community, including Novell, maintains and releases the openSUSE distribution."
the openSUSE community, backed up by Novell... the openSUSE community, with Novell support,...
I think it is important for the community to be recognized so it should be told that the openSUSE distribution it is maintained and released by the community, although 90% of the community might be Novell employees right now. Novell already maintains some professional distributions, SLED, SLES, SLERT..., if you want a strong community, you should recognize them and let them participate. I also think that there should be some kind of "Director Board" instead of a "Maintain Board". I mean that those people could take real decisions about the distribution and control and direct the development. And the Board should be elected for community members. Just a way that community can be more involved by leting them participate in the decisions. People who wants to be there, should show their merits so that they could get votes. I mean that in order to ask for votes, you should show somehow that you are involved enough. For example, it could be a group of people "electable" that could invite others that deserve it. So it would be a little meritocratic and democratic as well. Sponsoring could have some advantatges as well. For example there could be some reserved seats in the Director Board for sponsors (right now sponsors equals to Novell). But I do not think that it should be 3 of 5 chairs, like Novell is proposing with the Maintain Board. just my 5 cents trying to build a community, jordi
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jdd
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