Il giorno mer, 05/03/2008 alle 18.36 +0100, jdd ha scritto:
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?
so there will always be 3 novell and 2 non-novell
I don't mean at all novell employees are not good persons, but nobody can have two hats...
I wonder why and with what purpose you are trying to put a negative accent on the fact that there are three Novell employees in the board (2 elected by the community). 1. This point is NOT under discussion in this thread and it's not what Pascal asked to us. 2. There would be no openSUSE without Novell and without the help of the same Novell employees who will be the potential candidates to the board election. 3. The Novell employees you'll vote are the same guys who work on the distribution, fix the bugs you report and already take the decisions which influence openSUSE, investing in the project a lot of time if not all their work time. I don't really see the point in thinking they'll act against the community interest, because they are actually a part of it. About the risk they're fired for voting against a Novell decision, well, I don't think that's possible, considering Novell is authorising the board and in any case, it would cause a huge damage to Novell's image causing a big loss in the community trust and participation, which is not what they want. 4. As in all things, the trust must be reciprocal. They need to trust us and we need to trust them. I think they started in the right way, with the idea of the board and of giving us the possibility to vote. So please, don't see negative aspects where there aren't that many. To conclude, please keep on topic. The questions Pascal asked were on the rules/organisation for the elections, not on the number of Novell employees who will be member of the board. Regards, Alberto --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org