Re: [sugar] Proposed Governance - was: (Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09)

2008-06-12 Thread Jim Gettys
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:34 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: As the instigator of this Decision Panel business, I should attempt to clarify the idea. My goal is to make serving on the Oversight Board as unappealing as possible. Ideally, it should be _difficult_ to find seven people

[sugar] Proposed Governance - was: (Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09)

2008-06-09 Thread Jim Gettys
2. Governance: One of the challenges that free and open-source projects face is the impact of governance on their community members: while FOSS licenses assure access to source code, that doesn't guarantee a successful project. A governance model can help ensure that the project is run in a

Re: [sugar] Proposed Governance - was: (Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09)

2008-06-09 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Gettys wrote: | 3) The decision panel mechanism seems cumbersome, and fraught with | political danger; if people don't believe the oversight board is being | fair, they should get rid of the oversight board. There is the | (possible) issue of how

Re: [sugar] Proposed Governance - was: (Re: [IAEP] Sugar Digest 2008-06-09)

2008-06-09 Thread David Farning
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 11:07 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: In general, I like what I see. I think somewhat more (and somewhat less) specific governance needs to be specified from what I see so far. Not all of these need to be addressed in a temporary working governance document, but do need to