[okfn-discuss] Open Knowledge Foundation Governance

[Luis Villa]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Mike Linksvayer <ml at gondwanaland.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know the details, but I think KDE eV and GNOME Foundation are
> well known examples that have had a meritocratic-democratic structure
> (members elect, members have to be nominated by other members, have
> contributed to projects) from their inceptions.


At least for GNOME, that is basically correct, though we've always
tried to make "have contributed to projects" pretty broad- you can be
a member purely on your QA or marketing contribution, for example.

Other than that clarification, +1 to everything Mike said.

Luis