Oliver Bengs a écrit :
Novell employees can only vote Novell employees and the community only community members.
I don't think so, however most potential voters can only know people from they activity in the communication channels of OpenSUSE, when Novell folks know each other, at leat on some parts (Germany, I beg) who may be candidate for Novell? It's probably very difficult to vote for a novell employee and make him represent novell if he's not choosen by Novell? What are the Novell employee good for in the Board? do they speak for Novell (or simply must they, eventually, have to speak for Novell)? If so, only Novell can choose them, specially the chairman we can barely skip the distinction Novell/non Novell, can we? because if half of the board is dsigned by novell, the candidates for the other part must be non-Novell? difficult...
* How should elections work ? (from an organisational and technical POV)
partly a matter of money. nowaday it's easy to create fake e-mails (only read opensuse@opensuse.org to know) and indentity, so the most secure system is to send a surface registered mail to any people wanting to vote and ask for an answer. This is what did Icann at large for the Icann vote. But this is very expensive both as mail cost and for registering work. Probaly overkill here. else I don't see any other selection than: * have a Novell account (log in the wiki) * sign the Guiding Principles but we can't ask them to be "members" as members are designated by the board. jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://clairedodin.voices.com/ http://www.clairedodin.com/ http://claire.dodin.net/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org