Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch 05 März 2008 schrieb jdd:
> 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...
The two Novell candidates would be chosen from the community on behalf
of their past actions within/for the community I'd think. If you don't
know Bernhard, don't vote for him. If you know Beineri, consider voting.
This is far different from a Novell internal decision on who will be
representative for the opensuse board. That the chairman is appointed
by Novell is already pretty tough.


> but we can't ask them to be "members" as members are designated by the
> board.
Yeah, chicken/egg in it's nicest form. But I kind of agree, it may be a
good idea for the next elections to come, but is a danger for the first
election. But all systems I can come up with are easy to break if just
2-3 persons decide to break the system by virtual identities.

Now the question should be: what would be their interest. I can't see one,
but I'm pretty naive too :)

So I think the first step would be to have a list of people that can vote
(however defined). At that point, people should have a way to identify
"virtual" identities - and malicious people may have less interest in playing
games if they _first_ have to publish what they're planning before they
have a chance to.

And the second step is sending everyone on the list a ticket to take part
in the election.

Greetings, Stephan

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