John Plocher wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Michelle Olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> > wrote: > >> So, it's not just us then? All communities have lazy electorates? I don't >> get your point and I'm not sure how GNOME community has anything to do with >> why the OSOL Constitution 2009 didn't pass. >> > > The constitution was approved by ~80% of the people who bothered to > vote, yet it failed. Why? Because not enough of the electorate > bothered to vote. We *JUST BARELY* got quorum again this year. If > that doesn't tell you that most of the OpenSolaris Community members > couldn't be bothered with this whole governance thing, I'm not sure > what will. >
I don't agree with your reasoning about why it failed and why quorum was hard to reach. I see this differently than you do and it will be hard to convince me that the OSOL community can't be bothered with governance. I wouldn't run for this board every year if I agreed with that. > Glynn is saying that this apathy isn't unique to OpenSolaris, but is > common across other open source communities - there are two types of > people who populate these types of community - those who like to "do" > and those who like to "govern"; the overlap between the two types is > rather sparse. > Stereotypes and labels aren't useful to me really. I like to break them and find that usually people have far more in common with one another than they have differences, particularly on a project as small as OSOL. -Michelle > -John > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss >
