Hi Andreas, On 03/09/2020 19:59, Andreas Mantke wrote: > b) TDF currently has 221 members and none of them asked any question to > the candidates! > > That's something to think long and hard about. What does this mean to > the democratic culture of the foundation. It was created to get the > members / contributors a voice and a say.
Fair enough =) good point - here are a few questions I came up with. Please note - it is trivial to ask more questions in a few minutes than can be answered in a lifetime - but here are a few things I'd love to know from each candidate: What is the right list for that ? board-discuss I hope. * many MC members say they want to expand the membership. Given that LibreOffice is rather static in terms of its number of those involved in development: coding, UX, translation, documentation etc. + how do you plan to gain lots of new contributors ? + Do you think we expand the membership by accpting more marginal contributions for membership cf. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership_Role#Contributing + what effect do you expect that to have on the project ? * If you've stood before, approximately how many people have you encouraged to apply for membership ? * How many applications have you voted against ? * Do you believe we should have a half-way house / badge between membership and non-membership that encourages a person, and gives the a path via more contribution to achieve full membership ? * When there are no concrete metrics (such as translated strings, code commits, wiki changes, ask comments, etc.) available to decide on a person's contribution; what is best practice for MC members vouching for their friends' contributions, and how should other MC members validate that ? * To what degree should the MC's decisions & discussion be transparent (ie. publicly available) ? * How do you believe we can improve the existing election system - assuming the statutes can be tweaked ? + I'm interested in where we have the situation that being too popular can stop you being able to engage at all as a deputy - as we saw with Miklos/Jona in the last MC election, and Kendy in the last Board election. Thanks for any answers =) Michael. -- michael.me...@collabora.com <><, GM Collabora Productivity Hangout: mejme...@gmail.com, Skype: mmeeks (M) +44 7795 666 147 - timezone usually UK / Europe -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: board-discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy