On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Sankar P
Hi board candidates,
All the very best to everyone competing in the board election. Personally, this election has a lot of candidates who are too close to me.
Sankar, you should be a report. These are great question. Please forgive me as I am dyslexlic.
I have a few very simple questions for the candidates. Please answer them with a soft-limit of 750 characters, per answer. Thanks.
0) Board and Foundation: Will board members be controlling the foundation too ? What roles do you see board members performing in the foundation ? will there be dedicated personnel [from/outside] the board for specific roles in the foundation ? I know that these have been asked in the foundation-list earlier but I am interested in knowing what your idea on this. Will you be interested in nominating yourself for any specific position, say Treasurer, Lawyer, Firefighter
At this time, I don't know a lot of the details of the Foundation, but I see the board being a major player in the Foundation. I believe the board with help set up board with the help of Attachment and openSUSE member. Even if I don't make it to the board, I like to help with the Foundation. I like to be that outside voice to the foundation and firefighter for both it and openSUSE. I love fighting a good fight one of the reason that I am Ambassador.
1) Financial Transparency: Assuming that the foundation will be setup soon, what aspects do you think that the financial processes of the foundation should have ? What level of openness do you propose ? Should everything be in black and white or there can be costs which are not shared public ? How often should a reporting be made in terms of the financial status ? Should we follow some other open source projects here ? Say GNOME/KDE ?
I need to review GNOME/KDE before I can make voice true feeling on this questions. But I think that financial transparency is a good thing. If the members want to see what the Foundation is doing they should be allow to ask and see. I can relate on that because I am Cub Scout Den Leader, and my den collect dues. If the parents want to see how the dues are being spent, all the have to ask and I will show them the books. It makes people trust you when you have transparency.
2) Software Freedom in the era of cloud: Earlier people were locked into proprietary data formats (like doc, ppt) (before OOXML) but now people voluntarily lock their data (mails, photos) into cloud storage. Some feel paranoid about this. Some feel that this fear is much similar to the fear that people had when Banks were introduced to store people's money. Do you think that it is okay to trade a little freedom for a little free online storage, for some home users at least ?
I think the term cloud is a bit over used. Every where you turn it cloud this and cloud that. So many people are confuse to what the cloud, I think that people should be wary about putting to much out there, but that me being a System Admin. Until we can come up with standards that will help the end user and protect their data. By the way, there are at least three terms for cloud computing; virtual servers ( Amazon Computing ), share data, share processing. At least with the Back , you knew they were only keeping your money.
3) openSUSE Hosted Solutions: Do you think openSUSE should enter into hosting things and providing online services for users (like ubuntuone, gmail, dropbox etc.) ? We can charge users a small fee and promise to not spy/sell their data.
Think that would be great. KVM on openSUSE is great so we have the means. Just need to come up with a nice web interface that make it easy for people to manage their server. This would be a great tie in product for SUSE Studio. Create the guest on SUSE Studio then move to openSUSE Hosted Solutions.
4) Hypothetical Scenario: If Microsoft offers us a few thousand dollars as part of Bing marketing for making Bing the default search engine and homepage on openSUSE, will you accept it ? If no, Why not ?
If Microsoft offer and it would help openSUSE, I don't see why it would be an issue, because in the end, it's the user that usually select what their home page will be set too. I know that to some it may make us sell outs, but if you can get fund to help you grow, use them. Look Apple, they took a bail out to save them, and they are doing great now. Maybe I am getting old, but taking taking money from Microsoft doesn't make one a sell out for opensource.
5) vim or emacs ? (Just trolling here. You can avoid. You'll get +10 points if you answer both)
All the holy war of open source. I started out with Emacs, I really like it, but because I am System Administrator by trade, I am using VI. So now-a-days I have to say VIM, just because you can find it on more Unix Distro that Emacs.
Listmates, Please avoid arguing over any of the responses. These are just personal opinions and we should respect all of them. We can disagree with them when they are proposed as a board item. Now it is just a campaign response.
Thanks a lot and All the best :-)
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