On Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:39:13 +0100 Vojtěch Zeisek <vojtech.zeisek@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hello, dear candidates, I'd have few questions. :-)
Vojtěch, thanks a lot for these important questions, I will try to answer you the best I can.
I'd like to ask all of You (platforms [1-6]) for which of Your activities (read ways You help to improve the Project) do You need (or is highly helpful) to be Board member? I mean for which of Your targets, aims, goals, thoughts, agendas or objectives You need to be in Board, why is it necessary or helpful? Or asking from the opposite side, what of Your aims You can't do as any other community member?
I personally think that myself being a board member would help me have more legitimacy when trying to achieve my goals of inspiring new members to contribute but also when building bridges with other projects and distributions. I have done some of it already, but wearing the mantle of a true community representative has a completely different meaning and it's perceived a lot more positively.
Second, how do You understand the sentence "The purpose of the openSUSE Board is to lead the overall project." ([7], bit longer version at [8]) regarding the "main tasks" listed there and lack of any sort of executive power? Which kind of leadership (or governance), if any, do You have in mind in association with our Board?
I am not good at putting words about this other than what I already said in my platform. Leading in my opinion is not necessarily an authoritarian stance but an example that inspires people or in our case the community. The board is the governance of the project but by no means should rule the direction the project takes without proper scrutiny of what the community wants. The Board is elected by members of the project because it represents its best interests, not because it wants to impose its way of doint things.
Knurpht and m4u9, do You think there should be no foundation at all? Or You just don't have strong opinion on that topic?
I think there should be a foundation because as stated many times in the past it is an important legal step forward and focal point of the previous boards and current board. If elected I will continue the work along with the existing board members and learn more about it, in the development of this topic. I hope I answered in a satisfactory way, and feel free to develop further if necessary. Cheers, Maurizio -- Maurizio Galli (m4u9) Xfce Team https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Xfce