Moin On 03.06.2015 16:00, Klaas Freitag wrote:
On 03.06.2015 15:32, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 06/03/2015 09:04 AM, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
On Tuesday 02 June 2015 14:16:33 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
If everyone who wants to be a member gets to be a member just for filling out the application then we might as well not have it. The board can then be elected by the general population on the internet and everyone can run.
But the general population on the internet is not at all interested in openSUSE. If it was, yes, why not let them vote? Filling out the application means "I am interested in openSUSE and wanna work on and with it" - and that makes the difference...
We are not in the danger that Fedora or Ubuntu will swarm over us and vote their buddy into the board. We are rather in the danger of having very few being interested in openSUSE any more
How is making membership free making more people contributing to openSUSE? This isn't an either/or thing. When you are making membership 'free' you are still in danger of having very few being interested in openSUSE anymore _AND_ you're in danger that the FIFA will swarm over us and vote their buddy into the board. The first risk makes the second risk even higher. You gain nothing, except twice as much risk. We can simply make our membership process more welcoming, friendly, open and inclusive _AND_ have the same 'risk' level as today. Henne -- Henne Vogelsang http://www.opensuse.org Everybody has a plan, until they get hit. - Mike Tyson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org