On Friday 13 July 2007 12:27, Francis Giannaros wrote:
On 7/13/07, Michael Loeffler
wrote: The chairman with veto power is a kind of fuse for Novell to avoid that somehow the project goes into totally different ways than Novell is interested in. But no one can be interested that the chairman becomes a kind of dictator or uses his power to often. If that's the case the community will run away anyway. And this is well understood by Novell as well.
This is pretty understandable. Vetos by their nature are not exercised much, so it sounds good to me. The only thing I was wondering was the reasoning behind having 3 Novell employees on the board instead of 2 (similar to Fedora). Fedora has 5 Red Hats and 4 community members [There are nine Board members: five Red Hat members and four Fedora community members. ] see also: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board#head-862e63c892c7b803665086ee3d023db42f6...
So our Board is one step to open up the project to the community and give a kind of offical way for community influence outside of Novell. Michael
I'm not really against it at all, just interested here.
2nd draft looks good to me =)
Kind thoughts,
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