Re: should candidates be foundation members.

[Bruce Perens <bruce perens com>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:57:49AM -0700, Bart Decrem wrote:
> Members of the board of directors shall act on behalf of all GNOME contributors
> in the best interest of the GNOME project.  Although board members may be
> affiliated with companies that have an interest in the success of GNOME, they
> will not be considered representatives of companies with which they are
> affiliated.  The GNOME Foundation Board of Advisors provides a forum for
> corporate representation.

I suggest you state it a bit more strongly. Rather than "they will not be
considered representatives of the companies with which they are affiliated",
make it "they must represent the GNOME project, not the companies with which
they are affiliated"

I think you need that "must" there, so that when an employee gets into a
dispute with their employer over this, he or she can point to that "must"
as evidence that representing the employer directly would be an improper
or unethical activity. Thus, the employee can have something with which to
fight wrongful termination, etc.

Give us room to talk about wording for a day or so before you formaly move
to include this language.

	Thanks

	Bruce