Fedora Board election results

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 15:21 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> >> I'm curious Ralf, can you name 3 things that a candidate might have that
> >> match your criteria?
> >
> > In this vote, my criteria has been (in decreasing importance):
> >
> > * Not being @RH, because I wanted to see the community strengthened in
> > this already @RH-predominated FPB and therefore don't see much reason
> > into adding more @RHs.
> 
> Funny, this was my primary criteria as well -- yet when I cite this, this 
> criteria is dismissed as "playing a game".  That's a bit frustrating to 
> me.
> 
> > * Exclude people of whom I had learned not to be trustworthy.
> > * People having a measurable record as Fedora contributor.
> > * The candidates' interests overlapping with my personal interests.
> 
> So from these criteria, you could find no candidates that were worth your 
> vote. 
Correct!

But may-be I haven't been clear enough: These criteria had been more a
ranking system (soft criteria) but "strict" criteria.

That said, I am actually distinguishing folks, who have been put onto
RH's payrole after election to allow them working on Fedora from folks
who work on Fedora on "behalf of RH" and @RH-folks whom I have learned
to be "open-minded" from those I learned to be "RH
stateholders"/"RH-brain-washed" (Pardon, should this working hurt
anyone).

Otherwise I would not have been able to vote at all and would have had
to abstains. As I already previously wrote, I resorted to voting for
those I considered to be the "least evil" - This included voting for
@RH's.

>  Which begs three questions:
> 
> 1. Is there a potential candidate in the whole world of Fedora 
> contributors who would have met these criteria?
Yes, several.

> 2. If so, did you encourage them to run?
No.

> 3. If not, why not?
Primarily 2 reasons:

1) Because FPB's role/job/position in Fedora is not clear to me.
RH-inaugurated junta to suppress/control Fedora? 2nd chamber ("House of
Lords") of a parliamentary system? "supervisory board" to supervise the
"management board/board of directors" (== FESCO)? RH's representation in
Fedora?

2) Because I didn't have time to (Yes, sounds like a weak excuse, but
real life sometimes is more trivial than you may want it to be)

Ralf