Requests to the board

Vladimir Kosovac vnk at mkc.co.nz
Sun Jan 27 01:37:04 UTC 2008



Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> On Jan 26, 2008 8:11 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> It is more a question of how do you vote for someone without
>>> understanding their ideas on various decisions being made within the 
>>> board?
>>
>> Okay let's take me for example.  Did you and everyone else in
>> contributor-space have a reasonably good idea of what sort of things I
>> was interested in before I even stood for election?
> 
> To some extend, yes. A platform for debates like 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/foundation-list@gnome.org/msg02497.html 
> might be useful here.
> 
>> Do you doubt for a second that I would stop championing the same sort
>> of things now that I have ultimate power at the cost of sitting in on
>> a phone call once a week?
> 
> I might not. Others might. Nobody outside the board has much insight 
> into what individual people within feel about specific issues. I don't 
> think asking them all whenever decisions are made scales well. When I 
> make specific requests to the board, I don't really know who is 
> supporting my viewpoints or what they are disagreeing on if they do.
> 
Aren't mailing lists/blogs/individual contacts providing enough insight? 
I know you are keeping an eye on them, as should everybody else who cares.

Vladimir

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