Le jeudi 27 octobre 2005 à 09:49 -0600, Elijah Newren a écrit : > On 10/27/05, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, October 27, 2005 03:15, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > 7 is way too small to represent the diversity of our community. Consider > > > it in these terms: 2 people from 3 contributing companies and 1 other > > > person. > > > > > > No thanks. Our community deserves a diverse board, and structured > > > leadership for our organisation. > > > > Well, looking at the previous elections results, I see a lot of Novell, > > Red Hat (and in the past, Sun) people in the board. There were some > > "independant" people too, but not that much. > > > > I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just trying to show some facts. > > > > So, if I follow your logic, I would say we shouldn't accept more than > > 2 (or 3) people from the same company in a board with 11 directors. > > Does it sound like a change you would support? > > This kind of idea appears to have come up a couple times, in various > ways. I don't quite understand it though (and I personally wouldn't > support it). But I am curious as to why this has come up a few times > during this whole discussion... (Yes, I know you weren't asking me, > and that you were just trying to get clarification on other peoples' > comments, and yes I know that isn't an change we're really > proposing--I just saw it mentioned a couple times and was really > curious why it was coming up at all)
I don't know why it comes up. Maybe it's because people want to avoid possible conflicts of interests or because they don't want a company to control the Foundation. I'm not sure since I don't really support the idea ;-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
