On 09/02/2008, Cornelius Schumacher
It's new to me that the membership which was announced is also meant to form the body who elects the board.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. This is not a stated aim of the membership system. I was just trying to illustrate that there are uses for a membership system. Future elections is just one example.
This obviously would be a situation which is less than optimal. As the condition for becoming a member is the approval of the board, the board would effectively assemble the people for its own election. This would look like a bug in the rules to me. I'm not implying any bad intentions, just pointing out that it's not a good way to do these things in general, regardless of who is in charge.
This seems to be a problem inherent to any hierarchical organisation. Either you allow anyone to vote and elections skewed by malicious parties, or you control who can and are in danger of influencing the election. Most democracies have restrictions on who can vote. e.g. citizens of a country, not those in prison, etc. Even if the membership is selected by the board they can not control outcome of a vote if the ballot is secret. Membership process could always be altered in the future to allow nominations from other members as in other projects. -- Benjamin Weber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org