Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Bryen <suseROCKS@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 18:36 +0100, jdd wrote:
> Magnus Boman a écrit :
>
> > Novell does not chose 3 members. They will decide the '5th' member.
> > Anyone working for Novell, and contributing to openSUSE should be
> > allowed to put their hands up to be on the board. But it is up to Novell
> > employees and non-Novell employees to vote for them to actually get the
> > spot.
>
> this is unusefull world, sorry.
>
> Can a Novell employee vote against his employer? to be fired?
By the same token, how can you guarantee that a community board member
will vote the will of the community?   There are no such guarantees.

> so there will always be 3 novell and 2 non-novell
I happen to see 2 Novell employees elected by the community to be a
benefit to the community.  Remember, that these two employees have to
earn your vote first before they even get on the board.    To have won
your vote proves to Novell that those two individuals carry a lot of
weight when Novell has its own internal decision making processes.
This clearly benefits us more than it benefits Novell.

A community-elected Novell employee board member carries alot of weight
and alot of influence internally and that's a good thing for us.

Not to mention, this employee will have to maintain good relationships
with the community if he/she expects to win your votes again in the next
election cycle.  Any appearance of not favoring the community would hurt
their chances of re-election.

Maybe that's just the optimist in me speaking, but I just simply don't
see a negative downfall to a community-elected Novell board Member.

Bryen

> I don't mean at all novell employees are not good persons, but nobody 
> can have two hats...
>
> jdd

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