Thank you, Klaas.
I can only only give you a big
+1
Quoting Klaas Freitag
Am 11.08.20 um 16:09 schrieb Richard Brown:
Hi Richard,
I was really hoping for some insights into how you'd operate as a Board member once given the responsibilities of the office.
I'd operate as a selected representative of the community, speaking in behave of those uncomfortable with the happenings of the last few month, and even more important: I will do so with all my passion for openSUSE as a community and a distribution.
If you are elected, do you not feel that you would have a responsibility to act on behalf of ALL of the openSUSE community, not just a minority of your own chosing?
You talk about the board position as if it was the leadership of the federation commanding a fleet of ... No, it is not. The board is just a bunch of guys who should help people to have fun with openSUSE under the big umbrella of a huge company, and try to steer against if somebody goes wild.
Please stop to put that much of emphasis on "the board". It is important, yes, but other things are more important, which we are heavily neglecting on this list, also because of discussions like this. That should change.
At least we can surely agree, that any action that would be of legal relevance, deserves immediate sanction.
On that I wholeheartedly agree, and I can speak from experience that the Board has had issues of such relevance in the past.
And I apologise for such a vague and general question, but I assume you can understand that any issue of potentially legal relevance needs some discretion when talking about on a public forum.
This is - sorry - completely irrelevant, and I consider especially the last paragraph poisonous for our community, because it transports nothing but FUD. We do not need that!
Of course there are legal implications, of course you need to deal with it (being on a board or not), of course that is nasty. Why wonder?
It does not play a role if you are serving on as a chairman of the Kaninchenzüchterverein or on the great openSUSE board, you have a fair chance to get in touch with nasty stuff. Everybody who worked on a random non profit or, more specifically, a board of an open source project (and there are boards with far more responsibility than openSUSEs, ie. in the financial area) knows that. If one is running, he/she should be very aware of that.
We've also had Board members overeach their position and (intentionally or not) effectively bully other contributors into accepting their desired way as the only acceptable way.
I wouldn't want to see Pierre the Board Member fall fate to either such confusion.
How will you work to avoid such confusion if you are elected?
Oh man... I wished we had asked you these kind of questions when you were running... there is no answer to this kind of q's, and you know that.
Pierre brings energy and a different angle to the table, which I think is great. We should appreciate that and be happy that he stood up to represent alternative opinions. And if he convinces enough members to be elected, we owe him a chance to do things, with the tiny extra that the board role gives him over a "normal" contributor. After all, we ask him to do a lot of nasty work behind the curtain for us ;-)
It is great to ask the candidate questions, but we should stay reasonable and fair. IMHO.
regards,
Klaas
-- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Andreas Vetter Stellv. IT-Bereichsmanager Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie Tel.: +49 (0)931 31-82264 Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik Tel: +49 (0)931 31-85890 iuk@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org