Questions from Jeremy (was: Re: [Members] X.Org Foundation Election Candidates)

[Egbert Eich]

Daniel Stone writes:
 > 
 > (Cliff's Notes from the platform: we need _board members_ who are
 >  capable of fixing the organisation in an administrative sense, who have
 >  a good grasp of the technical issues involved, but primarily are good
 >  board members, not good coders.  Plus, if we need the board to
 >  intervene in technical issues, we're screwed anyway.  If you want
 >  someone to champion your interests technically, campaign for a release
 >  manager, not a board member.)

The X.Org Foundation without the coders and the software they 
create would be useless - an empty hull sitting on some funds.

Therefore I feel that the primary goal of the Foundation should be
to foster the cooperation among our contributors and give them the 
opportunities to expand their skills to benefit the software they
are creating. 
To do this it helps if Board Members had some feeling for how
free software development in general and our development processes
in particular work.
I've sensed a lack of this on the present board which contributed to
the need for lengthy explanations and deliberations which rendered 
the Board ineffective.

Cheers,
	Egbert.