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Cornelius Schumacher schrieb:
| On Tuesday 18 March 2008 11:10:47 Francis Giannaros wrote:
|> On 18/03/2008, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
|>> If we are going this route I think it's mandatory that the process of
|>> giving out membership status is transferred to a committee which is not
|>> the board itself.
|> I'm kind of interested in why you think this, though. Do you think
|> it's because selection of membership is open to abuse by the board,
|> really?
|
| If the board selects its own voters than this can create a potential
conflict
| of interest in some cases. I think it would be better to avoid this
from the
| beginning. I fully trust the current board to handle this conflict of
| interest in the right way, but why create a potentially problematic
situation
| when it's easy to avoid that.
And who should select the people who are eligible to vote? As yaloki
already pointed out, just by appointing an election committee, the
chicken / egg problem won't go away. Who will be in the committee? The
members who have already been appointed by the board? Or just anybody?
Who will control the committee? How do we trust the committee?
There simply is no solution to that.
We trust the existing board. Let use utilize this strength now. Once the
board is elected, the problem is more or less gone anyways. Especially
if you really restrict the board members to one term (which I strongly
favor).
|
| I also think that the time of the board can be spent better than on
reviewing
| membership applications.
|
No, members are important to the community. It makes it stronger. And
who is chosen to be a member is important in this sense. As the board is
like a connection between community and novell, it is important to
choose the members wisely.
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