Stephen Lau wrote:
> As I alluded to in one of my other emails - I think we do potentially
> lose. What happens if next year's election rolls around, and we fail to
> reach the 50% required turnout? What if we fail to reach it by the 13
> votes that we just gave to the LDom folks? (Not to pick on them - I'm
> just using them as the convenient example we're currently debating)
>
> If Community Groups and voting privileges were disconnected more, then
> I'd be more open to this.
This points out a need to either manage Core membership better or
to change the 50% voting rule, or to tie in voting requirements to
continued core membership or ..., but it does not (IMHO) mean we
should stop growing our community.
I agree that the current state of the OpenSolaris Meta-Community
governance is not what it should be, due in a large part to the
unfortunate fact that the governance state of the various OpenSolaris
communities themselves is almost rock bottom non-existent.
What can we do? The "hands off" OGB approach with zero tonic-team
resources ("Here's the constitution, go make up your own processes,
we can't/won't help, good luck") isn't working very well; most CGs
don't know where to start, don't have any way of supporting their
governance actions with website tools or infrastructure, and don't
have much (any?) motivation to actually do the work. Given the way
we have stacked the deck against them, is it any wonder why they are
not more involved?
-John
