On 11/29/2012 10:04 AM, Richard Brown wrote:
Bryen M Yunashko 11/28/12 6:34 PM >> To further clarify, the rule is for 40% of ANY company. So, SUSE technically shouldn't be singled out here. If say, for example, we have three candidates who are employed by the ABC Company, then only two of them could be on the Board if all three won an election.
And that 40% is ONLY for elected members of the Board. The chairman of the board is not beholden to that rule. He or she is appointed by SUSE. So you could have two (40%) elected board members PLUS 1 appointed board member from SUSE. So, it would be meaningless to set up a voting procedure where you vote for one employee and one non-employee because theoretically everybody is employed somewhere. As a voter, you may vote for as many candidates from the same company as you wish (up to the number of votes you are allowed.) What matters is the overall count of votes from the entire electorate.
Hope that helps, Bryen M Yunashko
As we're discussing this, I realise that the current Election page doesn't mention anyone's employer besides Roberts
Should us candidates go ahead and list our employers on this page to properly reflect the policy, rather than just highlighting the SUSE candidates?
It may not matter. Community members presumably will vote for the candidates they think are best suited to be on the board. Each voter has to determine for themselves whether place of employment plays a role in their own choice of whom to vote for. In the end, the 40% policy will get enforced when the votes are tallied. It would be great if we could keep the 40% policy out of voter's minds when they cast the ballot, meaning the 40% clause should not be a factor when casting the vote. Later, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU SUSE-IBM Software Integration Center LINUX Tech Lead rjschwei@suse.com rschweik@ca.ibm.com 781-464-8147 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org