Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Oliver Bengs wrote:
> Am Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:08:12 +0100 schrieb Pascal Bleser :
> > So please start shooting ideas, brainstorming, thinking out loud.
> > The key questions are:
> > * Who can vote ?  
> Novell employees can only vote Novell employees and the community only
> community members.

I don't think that's a good idea.
Because of implementation reasons (as Coolo wrote), but also because a
lot of Novell employees are part of the openSUSE community and, as such,
they should vote for anyone they like.

The separation of 2 Novell employees and 2 non-Novell employees on the
board is only to make sure there is a certain amount of independence
from Novell on the board (I say a "certain amount", because 3/5 of the
board is still made up of Novell employees (2 elected + 1 chair), but
that's fine by my book).
The point is just that if Novell is your employer and tells you to do or
say this or that, it's a tough ride going against that. That, of course,
is very hypothetical, and I have strong doubts it is ever going to
happen, especially as one of the board's mission is to act as a bridge
between Novell and the community. It just wouldn't make any sense.
But partitioning the board members as stated in the Guiding Principles
makes sense nevertheless.

> > * Who can we vote for ?  
> Everyone can suggest someone and the suggested person must be ready to
> do this job.

Two things on this:
- - I really think that only openSUSE members should be eligible: they are
proven contributors and they have signed the Guiding Principles
- - one should vote for people they trust, they agree with (wrt their
opinions on the openSUSE community), their programme/priorities (if we
will have such a thing ;)), but also for people who have time to devote
to getting things done

[...]

cheers
- --
  -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill
 _\_v FOSDEM::23+24 Feb 2008, Brussels, http://fosdem.org
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