Richard Brown: [...]
Who keeps the Board in check?
The Board represents the Project, and is meant to be answerable to the Members and the wider openSUSE community. The Members represent the wider/fuller openSUSE community, and have a direct lever of control over the Board, as our rules state "If 20 per cent or more of the openSUSE members require a new board, an election will be held for the complete elected Board seats. " With the current situation, where a significant number of the openSUSE membership is inactive and not participating in the project in *any* means, then it is significantly harder for those Members who ARE still active in the project to reach that 20% threshold
For that reason, and that reason alone, I think the effort to conduct a census on our existing Membership, and remove those who no longer have any interest in the Project, is in the best interest of the Board, the Members, and the whole Community - it's important to have a healthy governance structure.
If that is the or a problem, openSUSE members might change this rule (by vote) to something like: "If 20 per cent or more of the openSUSE members , or at least a number of openSUSE members that is greater than 50 per cent of the counted voters during the last Board election, require a new board, an election will be held for the complete elected Board seats."
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