Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:16 -0500, m...@openstack.org wrote: >> To kick things off I've created a Foundation page on the wiki and >> published a "Foundation Mission" draft for comment > > Nicely done on the Foundation Mission. It covers a lot of ground > concisely. Great start. Really. > > At first glance, one thing that seems missing is "OpenStack is a > self-governing meritocracy". Compare with the GNOME Charter, "How the > ASF works" and the Document Foundation Manifesto. > > There's lots of ways we could reflect this principle of meritocracy - > e.g. to highlight that the foundation is not an entity separated from > its members, but rather its members are the foundation. Members are > empowered beyond the points you list; they are empowered to > fundamentally shift the direction of the foundation itself. Influence in > the foundation is based solely on what one is doing to drive the project > forward. etc.
I agree with you. It sounds pretty critical to state that the foundation is not independent from its contributing members. I would therefore suggest to replace "The OpenStack Foundation is an independent body..." by "The OpenStack Foundation is a self-governing meritocracy...". The details on how to translate that into a governing structure belongs to the yet-unknown structure document, but I think that key principle belongs to the mission charter. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp