Cornelius Schumacher <cschum@suse.de> writes:
On Saturday 09 February 2008 02:07:41 Benji Weber wrote:
This begets the question - do you see any way other than a membership system to have an elected board in the future? This is a stated aim of the current board.
It's new to me that the membership which was announced is also meant to form the body who elects the board.
This obviously would be a situation which is less than optimal. As the condition for becoming a member is the approval of the board, the board would effectively assemble the people for its own election. This would look like a bug in the rules to me. I'm not implying any bad intentions, just pointing out that it's not a good way to do these things in general, regardless of who is in charge.
Yes, that could happen - but what alternatives do you see? Once we have elections, we need to restrict the voter list somehow IMO. I see the following options right now: * Having an users.opensuse.org account and signed the guiding principles * membership Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126