Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

["Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Pascal Bleser
<pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Secondly, we do think that members should have a higher weight, as they
>  have signed the Guiding Principles and are recognized as active
>  contributors. Maybe we should even restrict the right to vote to
>  "official members". To be discussed.

The logistics on this are going to be tough. We should probably limit
voting to members who have signed the Guiding Principles as we need
some way to verify that each person only gets one vote.

>  So please start shooting ideas, brainstorming, thinking out loud.

One thing that I didn't see here -- what about a nomination process,
beforehand? We should establish that anyone in the running *wants* to
serve on the board.

>  The key questions are:
>  * Who can vote ?

Members should be able to vote.

>  * Who can we vote for ?

Members should be able to vote for all four seats, regardless of
whether they're employed by Novell or not.

>  * How long should the voting period be ?

Ideally, I think we should have a nomination period of two weeks --
give people time to express interest and decide to run and/or allow
the community to nominate those people they want on the board.

Then, we should have a campaign period for candidates to talk about
their platforms for the board. Again, I think at least two weeks are
called for.

Finally, we should allow two weeks for voting.

>  We shall collect that information and map/reduce it into something
>  practicable as well as add our own ideas. The result of that process
>  will be published and discussed here, as well as on IRC meetings.
>  The current plan is to make a public board IRC meeting, possibly on
>  Monday 17th, or the week thereafter if we don't have enough results
>  yet -- we'll announce it on this list accordingly.

Just a point of interest here -- Monday 17th is during BrainShare, and
a lot of Novell employees are going to be heavily occupied that day.
The following week would probably be better.

Best,

Zonker
-- 
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
openSUSE Community Manager
jzb@xxxxxxxxxx
http://zonker.opensuse.org/
http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
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