The new openSUSE community-elected board speaks
The openSUSE project has a new board, and the new board has big plans.
The distribution's first board was appointed by Novell in November 2007, tasked with the unusual job of "bootstrapping" a community-elected board that could guide the project with a balance of Novell and non-Novell influence. Less than a year later, that community-elected board is now in place, and looking forward to its new role.
Pascal Bleser was on the bootstrap board, and took part in laying the groundwork for the new, permanent board election process. "We first initiated the creation of Guiding Principles that were primarily driven by Cornelius Schumacher (who happens to also be on the current KDE e.V. board of directors) but discussed on our opensuse-project mailing list, growing with the input of community members.
"Once we had the Guiding Principles, we went on to create the "openSUSE Member" status, in order to identify individuals who have been contributing to our community in a continued and substantial way (packaging, translating, helping, developing software, etc.). The Members were the ones who voted during this first board election, with the possibility of granting one right to vote to another non-Member. With 212 openSUSE members, we managed to reach what we think was a sufficiently large number of people to have legitimate elections."
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