Dne čtvrtek 3. prosince 2020 17:01:53 CET, Maurizio Galli napsal(a):
On Thu, 03 Dec 2020 16:39:13 +0100 Vojtěch Zeisek 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.
Thank You very much :-)
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.
I personally share Your feeling on this topic. Word of Board member should have some weight. On the other hand, it might be just feeling. I'm not sure.
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.
I think I can agree with You. As such topic appeared in at least 4 out of 6 platforms IMHO it's worth of being discussed bit more. :-) I asked this and the above question specifically as to my feeling we have little bit schizophrenic situation as the Board has in its description vaguely worded leading, while we also have strong advocates of "do-ocracy" (with very strong and good arguments), and some candidates call at least for more coordination and communication. I'm far from any attempt to change governance model, but it seems the discussion opened itself anyway, so let's discuss it. :-) I'm sure no-one is in favour of any authoritative styles, but there are plenty of styles of democratic governance, where the Board would be rather coordination body, possibly proposing possible pathways, but never acting against community will (But how to judge this? IMHO not using this ML...). Might be we end up that most of people are fine with current state and no change is needed. :-) We'll see. Komunita openSUSE GNU/Linuxu Community of the openSUSE GNU/Linux https://www.opensuse.org/