Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 à 09:55 +0100, jdd a écrit :
how many employees do have Novell? all over the world? I'm pretty sure any non officially suse related people could be on the board and novell don't know :-))
It might make sense to request from candidates that they tell who their employer is, even if it's not related to their openSUSE involvement.
I think this risk is far smaller than the one of having a community split.
I don't quite see why there'd be a split.
The real problem than it seems than novell says they do this system to ensure they will be non novell people in the board, what seems to me ridiculous, when we all try for years to say that there is no difference, we all are the same community.
Keep in mind that this thread is not about changing the 2 Novell and 2 non-Novell rule in the board. However, in the future, and the board might want to discuss this, it might be easier to have a rule like this one we have in the GNOME Foundation: "no more than 50% of the elected board members may be affiliated with the same company" (it's 40% for the GNOME Foundation, but there are more board members).
in fact, with this system, any novell employee will be obliged to tag himself as so, even if not at all in the official opensuse team...
Don't know why this would be a problem ;-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org