Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Alberto Passalacqua <alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx>]

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

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