On Tue, 2020-08-04 at 10:43 +0400, Ish Sookun wrote:
Dear all,
Stasiek has set up his campaign page at https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ad_hoc_Board_election_2020_platform_hellcp.
If you have questions for him as a running candidate, feel free to ask.
Regards,
Ish Sookun
Hi Stasiek, Thanks for agreeing to run and posting your platform. I have a few questions/comments/thoughts in response: Board Structure - I would be very happy if you could post detailed suggestions of what Board structure you'd like to see. Given any major constitutional change will require consent of the openSUSE Membership (most likely expressed through a vote) I feel this is mostly irrelvant to your election to the Board - whether you get elected or not, this topic can be progressed. Indeed, if you do not get elected, I'd still expect the topic to be discussed, so it seems strange to me that your platform states you have a general opinion on this topic but you have not apparently shared it yet. Role of the Board - You state your dissapointment that the Board does not involve itself in technical issues, but the openSUSE Board is explicitly forbidden from "directing or control development". [1] Are you suggesting not only a constitutional change to the Stucture of the Board, but also it's scope and role? Trademark requests - speaking from experience, the Board expends a HUGE amount of energy on Trademark requests under our guidelines [2]. Most of these have to be handled privately because they are commercially sensitive to the companies who wish to be using openSUSE while complying with our trademark guidelines. However there have been some clearly visible examples, such as the Tuxedo deal which I took literally years of negotiations before it bore fruit. I would imagine the way you have dismissively talked about this in your platform might have hurt feelings in the team you wish to be joining - I certainly would be pissed off if I was still in the Board ;) Your platform does a wonderful job of discussing what you have done for the Project in the past, which I absolutely adore and praise, but I am dissapointed that your platform seems to lack any detail on how you'll act as an actual Board member. I cannot find any detail that maps to any of the roles the Board is currently constituted to act. This is a topic I know you have some experience in so here are some leading questions I'd like to see you answer and flesh out your platform with. How do you make yourself available for contact by community members? Ho w much time do you engage with community members every week? What is your view on conflict resolution? How do you currently moderate the Discord channel? Would you like to see that philosophy spread broader across the community? How do you make sure that you dont step on the toes of others when pushing your agenda and contributions in an area where existing contributors could be present but struggling? The Board's role includes "Facilitate decision making processes where needed." - should the Board decide when "when needed" applies, or should the Board only involve themselves when invited by community members who wish their help in decision making processes? What is your opinion of the Project's key sponsor (SUSE)? How do you intend to communicate and collaborate with SUSE in an official capacity? What are the first things you're going to ask for? [1] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Board [2] https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Trademark_guidelines -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Geschäftsführer: Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org