Open Stack

I would also rather focus on defining what qualifies an individual member, and the type of people we want to make up the Foundation. I hope we attract active individual members from all disciplines (business, technical, academic, etc.) who are passionate about helping OpenStack succeed, and who take the responsibility seriously to elect the most qualified people to the Board of Directors. The challenge is that, outside of the technical realm with measured contributions of code or documentation, it's harder to draw lines.

One way to encourage self-selection could be to add more required fields and depth of information to the member profile, which will be made public. It would add some level of resistence with implied qualifications and just the time committment. I suspect people who are joining just to cast a vote for their corporate candidate or twitter friend will be less likely to do so if they are required to complete the profile and publicly disclose this information. 

Thanks,
Lauren

On Aug 1, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Soren Hansen wrote:

> 2012/8/1 Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com>:
>> I've got all the respect in the world for both of you.  But there are
>> going to be people at $contributor that will vote not based on their
>> own opinion but one that will serve their interests at $contributor
>> because of incentives real or imagined.
> 
> If that's the problem that we're attempting to address by the director
> diversity clause, I think that's thoroughly misguided.
> 
> If we don't want big companies to be able to stack the election, perhaps
> the barrier to entry should be higher than just being able to operate a
> web browser. Sure, we wouldn't be able to brag about having thousands of
> members only weeks after opening the flood gates, but I think it would
> have been worth it.
> 
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