On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 10:45:14AM -0500, inode0 wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 06:36:08PM -0500, inode0 wrote: > >> In the Composition section it says "All seats are occupied by Fedora > >> community members." This is correct and this is the language I prefer. > >> So could we also say that in the blue box at the top of the page > >> rather than "The Fedora Project Board is made up of a mix of Red Hat > >> employees and Fedora community contributors?" > > > > Actually, I think of Red Hat employees as *part* of the Fedora > > community, so really it's made up of a mix of Red Hat employees and > > either a group called "other Fedora community contributors," or called > > "volunteer contributors." I would lean toward the former, because I > > would bet there are some people out there who contribute to Fedora in > > part not as volunteers but paid by some non-Red Hat entity, like a > > hypothetical employer who pays for someone to spend 15% of his or her > > time on Fedora. > > Red Hat employees who serve on the board *are* part of the Fedora > community. Singling them out for special mention as Red Hat employees > in this context emphasizes the distinction that I would like to see > de-emphasized on the board. > > Red Hat seats and community seats did make a certain sense. There are > seats appointed by a Red Hat employee and there are seats elected by > the community. However, calling them that in light of who gets > appointed and who gets elected highlights the wrong thing. > > Can we find a way to acknowledge Red Hat's contribution without > splitting the description of the board into Red Hat employees and > those other contributors? Any construction that begins with "Red Hat > employees" and ends with some other generic group of contributors does > not sound like a unified community to me. > > That will be my last two cents on this one. Now I better understand what you were trying to tell me earlier. I've made additional changes to remove these references, which I agree are unnecessary. The changes will be subject to Board approval. Paul _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
