[Mageia-discuss] Mageia Forums

[Tux99]

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.