[OpenStack Foundation] Nomination Process Updates

Monty Taylor mordred at inaugust.com
Wed Aug 1 22:58:12 UTC 2012



On 08/01/2012 05:52 PM, Benjamin Black wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>> If someone in a leadership position at HP were to tweet or email:
>>
>> "Monty Taylor from HP is running for the OpenStack board. He's
>> fantastic, everyone should vote for him"
>>
>> That's, you know campaigning. It doesn't involve collusion to elect a
>> board of 8 other people. For them to send an email:
>>
> ...
> 
> Yes, exactly.  And in this way the largest companies can take control
> of the individual seats and you end up with company seats and employee
> of company seats.  This is not a desirable state of affairs, but it is
> likely.

Still assumes that employee of company seats have something to do with
company, which is a point I do not stipulate. If I _did_ stipulate that,
however, I would agree with you.



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