On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:24:43 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Yes we do need to protect our nice club to some degree. We need to make sure that the direction we're going and the decisions we're taking are made by people who will suffer the consequences of them.
Technical decisions are taken by those who do the work, that's the old and
proven open source mantra. No club needed for that.
Some other decisions are taken by those who own the assets which the community
needs, be it the trademark, the infrastructure, or the paid time of
contributors. The club which is taking most of these decisions is SUSE.
In some cases it still is good to have a well-defined group representing the
community as a whole, that's where the membership comes in. But as this is not
so much about taking decisions but more about representation there is not much
to protect unless you want to stay exclusive, which I suppose we don't want to
be.
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Cornelius Schumacher