X.Org BoD meeting minutes 2015-07-23

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 10:21:55AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 08/ 6/15 06:10 AM, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
>> Perhaps the election committee should be more active in
>> pursuing potential candidates. I suggest several almost every year (i
>> seem to be the only one who even bothers to do so), only this year it
>> actually worked as Egbert actively went and poked those that i had
>> suggested.
>
> Every year I was on the election committee we got nominations from
> multiple people, not just you, and every year we contacted every single
> person nominated, and most of them declined.

So why did it work so well this year? Why were there (from memory) no 
new board members last year when i did not bother to nominate anyone.

> If you care this deeply, why do you not run?   If you can understand
> why you don't run, why are you surprised so many others decline?

Because:
a) some elements are way too keen to see me fail, and that would not be 
productive for anyone involved or the foundation itself.
b) a good democracy needs an opposition which peers over the minutes and 
wheelings and dealings, and flags things things from time to time.
c) i already organize the former Xorg devroom at fosdem.

Luc Verhaegen.