On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 22:16, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
yes, it's a good part and I thank you for having started this kind of discussion (with same questions from the two candidates), but I have to say I'm a bit concerned by the little valuable answer you received, given we have only two candidates and so obviously one of the two have to be a future board member.
and on the same time, I asked me: "I could have been a candidate, and what could have I found to answer?".
And I dunno. A large part of the board work is under the hood, for very good reasons, but then how can I know how I could give an answer, don't knowing the question??
I may see only one answer to such questioning: a two steps/level ballot.
Just an example as support for a future foundation bylaws... We could have "regionaly" elected "super members", possibly elected on face to face meeting based on country (think of US Senators) - expecting local people to know better candidates to have seen them here and there.
Then, second level, these regional super members could elect a board among them, hoping they can better know each others.
by the way this could allow a better regional representation, I know for sure that we have many people in Asia (China, India...), but don't see them is the present the board (fact, no offense to be taken).
I think we should instead work to empower the contributors from Asia, they are great people, they are making some of the best content for openSUSE I have ever seen. I am talking about developer onboarding so much because I truly believe that a lot of developers don't get the chance to contribute to openSUSE, because __this__ is intimidating. Not having a helping hand in this endeavor when you are starting out is going to be terrifying. We are the worst at it, we need some ways to allow people to voice their issues, their ideas, and help them get started. You might have seen how much effort I put every day to keep the people in the project connected, by heavily moderating the communication channels, inviting the new contributors, introducing them to what they can do for the project. The solution isn't diluting the governance across the globe, because then we are ignoring the issue, by making Asian board for the Asian contributors, we need to have actual representatives from Asia representing their viewpoints to the board if not on the board.
You see how I try to work: when something get wrong, try to fix the problem, not to blame anybody but myself... not always successful, of course :-(
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