Am Dienstag 25 Mai 2010 17:14:06 schrieb jdd:
Le 25/05/2010 16:28, Martin Schlander a écrit :
While someone was trying to state that Novell doesn't have any special role to play in setting the direction, compared to some random individual volunteering a few hours of spare time.
well, If i read between the lines (and why do I have to do so?), it looks like Novell could give some more freedom. Have you read the thread up to here? Or do I get you wrong here? Why are you reading something out between the lines when there is a clear and all-embracing statement from Henne?
If it's not only an idea, but a fact, may be we could on the beginning give the board some more power to dcide? We could, but we conciously decided against when we discussed the Guiding Principles of the project a few years ago. We were of the opinion that the openSUSE community is (or will be) self consistent enough to come up with a large amount of self regulation, decision taking, discussion will and tolerance to be able to be a real community and drive the project together. We did not want a project of followers who elect a board and do what they decide. Actually I am not sure if there are free software projects run that way. At least to me they weren't interesting actually ;-)
After all, the board is who have been elected (even if not exactly to this goal).
Right, not to this goal. Our board has another purpose which can be read in the Guiding Principles. They can moderate, inspire, kick off discussions etc. in the communty if people see a need. And, as a result, this weekend we have the strategy discussion here :-)
Say...
Let the board decide what will be the name of next distro (should be 12.0?) - after large discussion and voting through members and ambassadors.
Why the board? If you feel like renaming the distro, well, go ahead and say that on @project. See how people react and try to convince the community. Come up with good arguments, with humor, charme and what not, that is the way you convince people. Finally that will lead to a decision. That is open to everyone, not only the board guys. Note that we want and need the creativity of everybody, not only of the board.
IMO... Klaas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org