On 1/17/2011 8:53 AM, Nelson Marques wrote:
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:23 +0000, Nelson Marques wrote:
Dear all, Given the recent events, I decided to compile a small list of questions/topics to present to the contestants to the Board. 1. "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - F. Nietzsche Given the discussion regarding the recent action of the current board in expelling a member, could you please comment the quotation above having in mind that action (and your knowledge about the situation)?
Ok, I want to file my objection to these types of questions which posit the tight relation of over-arching philosophical concepts to the removal of one *member* [not "citizen", or "resident", or...] from an *Open Source project*.
Have some perspective. You are talking about a volunteer organization with real-world resource limitations operated by *volunteers* with real-world limitations and other obligations.
Ain't openSUSE an organization that also is based on philosophical concepts? For me it is important to know the applicants standings regarding such topics. We never know when we might run into the same issues on the future:
"Those who can not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - Alexandre Dumas
If you are really concerned about this issue wouldn't just proposing a specific policy regarding membership revocation and getting comments on that from candidates be far more constructive?
That is being done by the community in Parallel in another thread. Some applicants have already are involved on it, which is the case of Sankar at least, and in a very constructive wave. Nevertheless one is forcing them to answer, they are entitled not to answer, but of course their actions will be judged and evaluated by those who haven't casted votes yet.
I also find strange that only 2 persons asked for questions so far. For sure my vote will be decided upon this, not that it matters.
The questions are irrelevant. You want them to answer questions based off of pseudo situations so you can pass judgement? I'm paying more attention to what level of dedication they have to the project, what do the participate in (Marketing/OBS/etc). I'm not going to base my votes off of "zomg they didn't answer this (stranger than fiction situation) i came up with to my standard. I'm not voting for them." -Matt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org