Am Mittwoch 05 März 2008 schrieb jdd:
Oliver Bengs a écrit :
Novell employees can only vote Novell employees and the community only community members.
I don't think so, however most potential voters can only know people from they activity in the communication channels of OpenSUSE, when Novell folks know each other, at leat on some parts (Germany, I beg)
who may be candidate for Novell? It's probably very difficult to vote for a novell employee and make him represent novell if he's not choosen by Novell?
What are the Novell employee good for in the Board? do they speak for Novell (or simply must they, eventually, have to speak for Novell)? If so, only Novell can choose them, specially the chairman
we can barely skip the distinction Novell/non Novell, can we? because if half of the board is dsigned by novell, the candidates for the other part must be non-Novell?
difficult... The two Novell candidates would be chosen from the community on behalf of their past actions within/for the community I'd think. If you don't know Bernhard, don't vote for him. If you know Beineri, consider voting. This is far different from a Novell internal decision on who will be representative for the opensuse board. That the chairman is appointed by Novell is already pretty tough.
but we can't ask them to be "members" as members are designated by the board. Yeah, chicken/egg in it's nicest form. But I kind of agree, it may be a good idea for the next elections to come, but is a danger for the first election. But all systems I can come up with are easy to break if just 2-3 persons decide to break the system by virtual identities.
Now the question should be: what would be their interest. I can't see one, but I'm pretty naive too :) So I think the first step would be to have a list of people that can vote (however defined). At that point, people should have a way to identify "virtual" identities - and malicious people may have less interest in playing games if they _first_ have to publish what they're planning before they have a chance to. And the second step is sending everyone on the list a ticket to take part in the election. Greetings, Stephan -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org