Thank for the questions Vojtech. I've put my answers below. On 2022-11-07 14:12, Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
Dne pondělí 7. listopadu 2022 14:01:37 CET, ddemaio napsal(a):
Hi all, Per a conversation some of us had at the community meeting last Thursday, we wanted to get discussions for the project started regarding this year's openSUSE Board elections. We listed a few questions in the minutes at https://etherpad.opensuse.org/p/weeklymeeting20221103 You can find some of those questions in the 1103 meeting minutes between lines 48 and line 54. Please ask your questions (Ask us Anything) in this thread so we can keep the conversations focused and centralized for all the candidates and members who want to ask questions of the candidates. All the candidates are in cc and you can find their profiles at the board election wiki. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election
Hi, great idea. I looked up candidates' voting page, they are linked from <https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board_election#Candidates>, but for some candidates there are more or less only CVs/profiles, for others only election platform (nice, but having also profile page wouldn't hurt). If I should ask question, I'd need to know what the candidates wish to achieve, what they wish to do, what are their plans, etc. :-)
=== what the candidates wish to achieve === I’ve given this question considerable thought and I know my response may be considered controversial to some. I would like to see the community open up to the idea of incorporating blockchain technology into the project’s processes and identity. People of younger generations are operating in this space and learning code related to these areas. If the project actively ignores this generational transition and technology that can bring in new contributors, the project is, in my opinion, making a decision of exclusivity. Every time we go through an election, we need the election officials to go through the membership, set up an instance for elections.opensuse.org, send out the info and process the voting. This could be automated with a smart contract. Having an established system where each member is issued a governance token that allows for them to vote would be more simplistic. Making rules like if the token hasn’t been used in (x) years for example it would be removed and this would keep membership constantly measurable. New membership can be approved by a membership committee with rights to issue a new membership token. This token could also be associated with a badge system (digital collectable/NFTs) recognizing people's contributions similar to how Fedora Badges work. I realize this is not something everyone in the project believes in, but it would be an easy way to incorporate designs and bring in some designers to help with efforts for the project. === what they wish to do === Focus on getting the project to a point where it becomes either a Foundation or make a transition to a decentralized autonomous organization that is built for the next generation of distribution based open source contributors. === What are their plans === Building a framework for a foundation with other interested community members and simultaneously build an alternative DAO option to give members options for a final decision to be made by 2024. v/r Doug