[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

Tue Sep 21 18:09:32 CEST 2010

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, vfmBOFH wrote:
+>
+> Similar to the (failed) mandriva assembly, huh?
+> 
+> I think it can be a good scheme. And comes with some "extras" like localized
+> communities can "elect" their representative on the future associaton, and
+> turns the "central hub" in a open discuss for them. If this scheme sucess,
+> transparency and openess of the representative's discursons are guaranteed.
+
+
+Since vfmBOFH mentions the failed mandriva assembly, I'd like to suggest 
+to please keep the organisational structure as flat as possible.
+
+On the internet where everyone has equal possibilities to be informed 
+and partecipate we don't need multi-level hierarchical structures with 
+so called local community representatives that have special rights or 
+influence.
+
+As we just saw during the first days of Mageia, the opinion of some 
+local community representatives don't necessarily match at all with the 
+opinions of the members of their community.
+
+So personally I don't see any point in local community representatives 
+as decision makers. If anything they should make sure that their 
+communities are informaed by arranging translations of relevant 
+information and manage their local forums, events etc.
+
+Any voting on global Mageia issues should be open to everyone, there 
+should be no delegations or representations as that's not necessary on 
+the internet.
+
+