Le mardi 18 mars 2008, à 09:11 +0100, Pascal Bleser a écrit :

Vincent Untz wrote: [...] | GNOME: http://foundation.gnome.org/elections/ | | In GNOME, there's a Membership & Election Committee which is independent | from the Board. It handles all applications for membership that people | send and organizes the elections. Only members can vote.

And who determines the composition of the membership and/or election committee ? The board ? :)

There's obviously a bootstrapping problem ;-) I don't know how this was handled for the GNOME Foundation (I wasn't involved at that time). Federico might know, though.

After the bootstrap, the committee periodically sends a call for volunteers to the community to find new people who will do the work. And it then decides which volunteers join. In theory, the board can reject the new committee members, but it never happened so far. And I guess if it came to happen without a good reason (a good reason can be that the person is totally unknown), then, well, the membership could call for a vote (as in referendum) to do some bad stuff to the board :-)

I don't think there's something similar to referendum in the openSUSE case, though.

I can also imagine us voting for the membership & elections committee and create a nice loop ;-)

Vincent