-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 11:49:19AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > * Concern: SIGs can be negated and could mean that change could never come > > to Fedora as those in power have the choice to not reduce/remove their > > power. > > As I understand this, the worry is that a model where seats are tied to a > specific "Fedora org chart" could make it hard for new groups to get a > voice. I think there are number of ways we could deal with that formally, > including at large seats or even a council position focused on "emerging > interests". But I'm also not strongly concerned about this as a problem: as > always, the most power in Fedora comes from working with other people to get > things done, and the council/board *should* be flexible based on where this > is happening. (So, yes, let's make sure we make that adaptability part of > the plan.) No, I still have this concern. If the community wanted to, for example, oust GNOME from being the default desktop environment for something else, who from the Desktop WG would support that when everyone in the WG, and most likely the representative on this council, would be a GNOME person. I'm concerned with stagnation and this proposed group being more of a maintainer of status quo instead of branching out to try new things. - --Eric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQGcBAEBCgAGBQJUEdL7AAoJEB/kgVGp2CYvwdQL/RmYFgVDi4O/W/+Gxc9ijsof dSpsL79jCg9rAYfflG21KC5hGXuafL5VzEnBHjA+FVZIps4XGOVf1Mc9BGdEJ3tQ Ps8EHVl+Uf0IZJdnK80YH4qwvDeVrSM02gjhrpusz9VOx4PKOdLdds2xa6ybTeoy DZLwSyiaZPefrmOhV4e49j77/YyLbkk+b0UbLzIn/YjbFTQIvxtKD5ZXym8Gw4N1 /utNYx66TvA91dZemq9GTtzaBovuOxeREWwZsgSsPe7lAA1htTI5UMWYM9ogU1u1 7blxTMYTwSCq4mfx7u4uXmQNUULE0Ip7tREsBlYwof+zJk2b4GIce3nPsti8o3Uf aMHwdeP8BVrRhzjNSxy0bb2VDNExtcjhsOhpH7/aXl2O/0OJF08O3Oxt/Lewqbg/ W2teNmStJkE1R4gi1e3wLJqXmtgQhlzAMdKEFKM7LpLAgpT2KD0VohwV5Iu+33yi NBOpevK3aPJ6r4UC7Sgni9y6NmNi7Jl74szRAB1q0Q== =NRI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
