[OpenStack Foundation] Individual Member Director Elections

Jim Jagielski jimjag at gmail.com
Tue Oct 8 14:57:26 UTC 2013


On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

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> On 10/08/2013 10:04 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com
> > <mailto:mordred at inaugust.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     What matters is that Cummulative Voting is designed EXPLICITLY to
> >     support and bolster the idea that people with more money get more
> voice.
> >     That's its benefit, and it does its job very well.
> >
> >     We, on the other hand, would not like to express that worldview or
> >     organizational design in our community.
> >
> >
> > I find that statement troubling... just the idea that a basic tenet of
> > governance is something that people would not "like" the *community* to
> > know is somehow uncomfortable to me. What happened to the idea of open
> > and transparent governance?
>
> What? I'm talking EXACTLY about open and transparent governance.
>
> Let me be slightly more clear in my wording.
>
> I, as a member of the community, do not want the governance of my
> community to be beholden to the ability to purchase governance seats. I
> do not value that, and I do not think that most of the people in our
> community value that.
>
> With that in mind, I would like for our structure to reflect that at
> every level possible.
>
> ++1.
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