Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (67 mails)

[Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 July 2007 12:27, Francis Giannaros wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Michael Loeffler <michl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The chairman with veto power is a kind of fuse for Novell to avoid that
> > somehow the project goes into totally different ways than Novell is
> > interested in. But no one can be interested that the chairman becomes a
> > kind of dictator or uses his power to often. If that's the case the
> > community will run away anyway. And this is well understood by Novell as
> > well.
>
> This is pretty understandable. Vetos by their nature are not exercised
> much, so it sounds good to me. The only thing I was wondering was the
> reasoning behind having 3 Novell employees on the board instead of 2
> (similar to Fedora). 
Fedora has 5 Red Hats and 4 community members [There are nine Board members: 
five Red Hat members and four Fedora community members. ] see also: 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board#head-862e63c892c7b803665086ee3d023db42f6fcc54

So our Board is one step to open up the project to the community and give a 
kind of offical way for community influence outside of Novell. 

Michael 
> I'm not really against it at all, just interested 
> here.
>
> 2nd draft looks good to me =)
>
> Kind thoughts,

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