On Tuesday 18 March 2008 23:37:18 Felix-Nicolai Müller wrote:
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.
Even if it only would be a committee appointed by the board, it would reduce the problem as the people reviewing the membership applications would have less personal involvement.
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).
If you restrict the term to one term the problem is indeed reduced, but I think the question of reelectibility of board members should be independent of the question who is granting member status. There are good reasons why it would be good to have board members serve for more terms, e.g. to provide continuity, so restricting the options for that because of unrelated topics wouldn't be a wise solution.
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.
Members are important, but members shouldn't be chosen. The membership status should be granted according to transparent criteria. It would be fatal for the project, if the impression would be created that members are randomly chosen by a very small group of people. -- Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org