On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Luke Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, with the exception of Allen Tom (who has long been a community > advocate since before Yahoo became a provider), none of the community > members are currently also corporate members. > I guess that's not really addressing the problem Eddy mentioned. Take Google for example: DeWitt Clinton was representing Google as a corporate board member while Eric Sachs was elected as a community member of the board. Recently DeWitt resigned and Eric took his place. First, there was need for a new community board member. Fine, though by now almost all nominees for the community seats were or are board members. ;) Second, is Eric voicing different opinions as he represents Google now? Or was he representing Google's opinion anyway while being a community board member? I don't want to question Eric's integrity but at least this raises questions about the independence of community board members. So I support Eddy's motion. Carsten _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
