On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 14:24:50 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >From the meeting, reworded to start discussion. > > Currently the Fedora board is made of 9 members with 4 of them being > appointed. What are the benefits of this arrangement, and is there a > path where the Board could move to being completely elected? I haven't noticed any abuse of this. Both redhat and non-Redhat people have been appointed. Typically they have been selected from the runner ups. Doing this with an idea of balancing representation from different parts of the project seems like a good idea. (I like to see input from different parts of Fedora on the board, but there isn't a good way to express this diversity goal with the current election system.) What is more important to me is Fedora's commitment to self-hosting, so that there is a credible threat of a fork if Redhat starts doing undesireable things (in the opinion of a significant fraction of the community). And I think so far Redhat has been very good about supporting efforts to improve self-hosting of Fedora. I think that says a lot about their intentions for the future. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
