On Wednesday 29 September 2010 15:21:14 Rupert Horstkötter wrote:
I fully support Henne's suggestion to get rid of the Novell/Non-Novell split and open the whole board to the community while implementing the 40% rule as described below. But, and please let me raise a concern here, if we'd like to consequently implement this change in election rules, we'd also need to get rid of the current chairperson appointment from my perspective. The chairperson currently is appointed by Novell and to my feeling this still constitutes Novell a special role.
With Novell as corporate sponsor, I propose to acknowledge Novell's role here and leave the appointed chair person as is. If the sponsorship situation changes radically, then I would discuss this as well, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org