Bugzilla – Bug 554
OGB Candidates should be required to declare interests
Last modified: 2008-04-21 17:31:07 UTC
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Candidates for election to the OGB should be required to declare any and all interests in the code in sufficient detail for a voting member to understand their potential biases and context. In section 6.3 I suggest adding text like: "Candidates for election shall publish a list of their commercial and other interests in the source code to OpenSolaris, in sufficient detail that a voting member can understand the context from which they would act on the OGB and the likely biases they would bring. Candidates who before the start of voting do not publish such a statement and attest to its accuracy shall not be eligible for election."
I think this is a good idea, though I'd suggest something similar to the following wording - "Candidates for election shall publish a list of their commercial affiliation, or other interests related to OpenSolaris, so that a voting member can understand the context from which they would act on the OGB and the likely biases they would bring. Candidates who before the start of voting do not publish such a statement and attest to its accuracy shall not be eligible for election." I think we need to further back this up with an addition to 6.2. Composition with - "OGB members upon change of corporate affiliation or other interests related to OpenSolaris, must notify the membership of the same when that change applies." (or similar).
(In reply to comment #1) > I think this is a good idea, though I'd suggest something similar to the > following wording - > > "Candidates for election shall publish a list of their commercial affiliation, > or other interests related to OpenSolaris, so that a voting member can > understand the context from which they would act on the OGB and the likely > biases they would bring. Candidates who before the start of voting do > not publish such a statement and attest to its accuracy shall not be eligible > for election." > > I think we need to further back this up with an addition to 6.2. Composition > with - > > "OGB members upon change of corporate affiliation or other interests related to > OpenSolaris, must notify the membership of the same when that change applies." > > (or similar). Thank-you, I agree with those changes.
As of now, we're actively discussing amendments on #opensolaris-meeting - please come and join in the discussion.
The following text was sent to core-contrib-discuss@opensolaris.org at 02:08 GMT on Febrary 29 2008 for inclusion in the General MEeting: "This Constitution and its bylaws may be altered, amended, added to, or repealed by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Members of record during Annual and Special meetings as defined in 5.2 and 5.3, provided that the proposed deletions and additions, when applied to the Constitution, will result in a new Constitution that remains in complete compliance with the OpenSolaris Charter. The complete text of the proposed deletions and additions must: * be approved within an OpenSolaris Community Group using the Majority voting rule in article 8.4 prior to being delivered to the full Membership for adoption. * be delivered in a notice by electronic mail to the Members no less than ten (10) days prior to any vote on said deletions and additions. "
Oops, wrong thread :-) Real text in next message :-)
The follwoing text was sent to core-contrib-discuss@opensolaris.org at 01:59 GMT on Feb-29: Addition to section 6.3: "Candidates for election shall publish a list of their commercial affiliation, or other interests related to OpenSolaris, so that a voting member can understand the context from which they would act on the OGB and the likely biases they would bring. Candidates who before the start of voting do not publish such a statement and attest to its accuracy shall not be eligible for election. The Secretary of the OGB shall maintain a public register of OGB Members' interests." Addition to section 6.2: "OGB members upon change of corporate affiliation or other interests related to OpenSolaris, must notify the membership of the same when that change applies."
This amendment was adopted in the Annual Meeting ballot of March 2008.
This made it back into the constitution now. Closing it out.