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Hi,

Excuse quoting please, on phone.

The interesting thing about this thread to me has been the focus on the community seats, but no mention at all of who will fill the corporate seats.

For individual board members, there is a limit of 2 per company, which mitigates the wordless excesses people have suggested. For the corporate seats, is there an assumption that the nominees will have OpenStack's interests at heart? What recourse will the board have if that's not the case - say, if a senior person gets "given" the board spot as a reward, but never turns up to board meetings?

I know it's tempting to concentrate on the 33% of the board where individuals have direct influence, but some checks and balances for the 66% who will have the most influence might be a better investment of time and effort.

Cheers,
Dave.

"Doug Davis" <dug at us.ibm.com> wrote:

>IMO, if you work for a platinum/gold company they own you.  ;-)   No 
>matter how much freedom they give you they signed a CCLA and you're 
>contributing stuff on their behalf.  As far as I know on each commit
>you 
>don't specify whether its coming from your company or you - its all the
>
>company's.  While some people may have more freedom than others, and
>some 
>people may be able to wear multiple hats better than others, in the end
>if 
>your company doesn't think you're representing their best interests I'm
>
>sure they will take some corrective action. 
>
>So, let me ask this... what is lost by not allowing more than one
>person 
>from a company to have a seat?  Only thing I can see is that person
>won't 
>be able to cancel-out their company's other vote - which is probably a 
>good thing for both parties.  If the point of having such a large board
>is 
>to be inclusive I think allowing multiple people from the same company 
>gives the appearance of gaming the system with very little/no benefit. 
>Personally, I'm not really sure why we even let platinum/gold members
>be 
>"individual" members in the first place (aside to allow for the
>situation 
>causing angst in this thread) but that's probably a different thread. 
>:-)
>
>thanks
>-Doug
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