We had tonight on the opensuse-project IRC channel a lifely discussion about the board election. The central question was who can vote for the openSUSE board. We haven't come to a real conclusion yet, see below for some of the comments that were discussed. We'd like to continue the discussion here on the mailing list and meet again in two weeks on the openSUSE-project IRC channel. I took the following notes trying to summarize the key points of the discussion: * Who can vote? - every individual can only vote once, so nobody should be allowed to fake several personalities and use them for voting Suggestion: have a public list of voters to check that nobody is listed twice. The list will be closed at a certain time. - basically three different proposals: + only members + anyone + members + non-members members vouch for (web-of-trust alike) The idea here is to have the openSUSE community vote for the openSUSE board. The members are the smallest part of the community that has been appointed by the board, a member is somebody with a continued and substantial contribution to openSUSE. Having just members excludes some parts of the community. On the other hand, it makes fraud easier if everybody is allowed to vote - including people that have nothing to do with openSUSE and just show up to vote for their "friend". * We should have an Election Committee that organizes the election. The members of the Election Committee cannot be nominated for the board, they have to oversee the election. What are others doing? Let's compare what other projects are doing, here's a first list of URLs: Debian: http://www.debian.org/vote/ Fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/Elections Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126