Re: Candidacy: Lionel Dricot

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 23/05/11 12:02, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 09:29 +0200, Lionel Dricot wrote:
> >   It is not only about having a page that list the
> > commercial support companies. It's more about a deep collaboration
> > between the foundation and the companies that live from GNOME.
>
> I personally don't think that the Foundation needs to be involved in
> setting this up. Rubber-stamping this, certainly, but I don't think that
> those companies that offer services need the Board to be involved to
> make changes to the GNOME website.

Isn't that part of the problem? If the foundation isn't behind this, 
won't it seem completely self indulgent on behalf of businesses alone?

What I personally would like to see is much more backing from the 
foundation. E.g.

 - A web page
 - A banner at the next desktop summit
 - Something in the booklets given out at the next summit perhaps?
 - Some PR occasionally about how well projects are doing
 ... etc

Given the board represent the foundation at the highest level, why 
shouldn't they be (more?) involved in commercialisation of GNOME?

> > And for such deep collaboration to be optimal, the board is the best
> > place.
> >
> > >   - isn't the Advisory Board, and not the Board, the group where the
> > >     GNOME companies (and others, obviously) should be represented?
> >
> > I think that the board should represent the community. As I said in my
> > previous mail, I believe that the community is mainly composed of
> > independents, big companies with GNOME products and small companies with
> > GNOME services. Thus, I believe that the board should be a fair mix of
> > people from those different backgrounds. I especially happy to see the
> > candidacy of Diego, Ryan and Andre regarding that.
>
> I would argue that the Board doesn't need to match the represention of
> the community, but needs to represent the community at large. Otherwise
> we would have a different voting system.

I would argue that you best represent the community at large by having 
members from that community on the board and from all spectrums therein.

> Bringing your knowledge of a certain subject to the Board is certainly a
> good thing, but I don't think a person needs to work for a consultancy
> to be able to represent consultancies effectively, for example.

I think it is harder to communicate such things unless you're in a 
position (like being on the board).

> > PS: part of my hidden agenda is to impose French as the official
> > language. I already started the trend by never pronouncing the "H" (like
> > in "it appens" or "having a new CSS team for your desktop. What? Ah, a
> > theme!")
>
> I'm going for cockney rhyming slang.

+1 :)

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Regards,
Martyn