A month ago I presented my first draft for the new openSUSE board election rules and received some good feedback, especially on the opensuse-project mailing list. Since the last version presented on the mailing list I reworked the draft some more taking into account the proposal by Henne to remove the split of the elected seats into Novell and non-Novell employees.
So, now the goal of the changes for these rules are:
- Fill the holes that exist in the existing rules
- Clarify the existing rules
- Open up the project even more with removing the restriction on two members beeing Novell employees. To help ensure that the board will always represent a wide part of the community, I’ve followed the example of the GNOME foundation to have a rule that only 40 % of the elected board members can work at the same company.
Note that 40 % of 5 elected seats means 2 seats.
I’d like to thank Vincent Untz and Alan Clark who helped me with this revision step.
Below is the new draft, for reference I gave each rule a name.
I’d like to hear now whether those complete rules are fine or where they need further revision and I’d also like to see wordsmithing to clarify and improve the rules.
