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Dave,

There's no plan to set membership requirements, as the goal has been, and
continues to be, to foster an open ecosystem. However, we have talked about
requiring a few fields in the membership form to be completed with *some*
sort of statement of participation intent, whether it's as a user,
developer, evangelist, consultant, etc. There are over 5,000 individual
members at this point.

Also, there is a process for membership to *expire*, without some minor
effort to keep it active. But again, the goal is simply to prune folks who
have no interest in keeping their membership active, not to set a bar on
participation.

You'll have to check with Jonathan Bryce and Mark Radcliffe on the other
voting methods that were considered - when we went through the same voting
method selection process for the Gold Member Selector elections, we ended
up with a slightly different version of the Cumulative Voting method - we
limited the number of votes that could be cast for a single candidate to 1,
and gave each voter only 6 votes (even though there were 8 seats
available). There are many such permutations.

I believe the final election results will have the affiliations on them.

Cheers,

Joshua

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Dave Neary <dave at neary-consulting.com>wrote:

> Hi Joshua,
>
>
> On 08/26/2012 07:56 PM, Joshua McKenty wrote:
>
>> In order to comply with Delaware law, the Individual Members of the
>> foundation board of directors had to be elected using a method that is
>> approved under standard corporate governance. The closest we could get to
>> the Condorcet method (which will continue to be used for the Technical
>> Committee elections and the Project Technical Lead elections) is the
>> Cumulative voting method, which is what resulted in the 8 votes per voter
>> method.
>>
>
> What other methods are Delaware approved?
>
>
>  The reason a number of the candidates who finished in the top 10 won't be
>> seated on the board is due to the "Director Diversity" requirement in the
>> bylaws - specifically, there can only be a maximum of two directors who are
>> affiliated with any single corporate entity on the board at the same time.
>> So Joseph George (Dell), Thierry Carrez and Anne Gentle (RAX) are all
>> bumped, in favor of Rob Hirschfeld and Troy Toman, respectively.
>>
>> Hope that clears things up.
>>
>
> It does indeed, thank you Joshua.
>
> It would have been very helpful to see the affiliations of candidates in
> the election results.
>
>
> In an unrelated, but slightly pointed, question: are there any plans to do
> some kind of litmus test for new members joining the foundation in the
> future? I wasn't sure whether my small level of activity merited becoming a
> member, but when I saw that there was essentially no doorman, I convinced
> myself I was worthy. Are there really over 2000 people contributing to
> OpenStack at this point?
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
>
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