> Just for the record, I was not talking about developers but about > the leadership of the project, Ian. > > 8 out of 13 members of the Steering Committee are from US-corporations.
I don't think I'd consider the Steering Committee "the leadership of the project". In what sense do they "lead" the project? To me, when you talk about "leading" a software project, you're talking about deciding what work gets done and when and by whom it gets done. The SC has *absolutely zero* influence on any of those things. All the "maintainers" they appoint (which is already indirect) do is approve changes, not make the changes or decide what changes to make. And their approval is supposed to be on technical or style grounds. The people who make the "leadership" decisions (what to work on and when) are the companies that employ the *developers*, not the SC or the companies the employ the members of the SC.
