Ilario wrote:
What is community? Do you mean the same community who loves to discuss and frequently to lose the aim of some votation or elections?
This is a great question, and I applaud Ilario for asking it straightforwardly. In my experience, sometimes "the community" is used to refer to those who actively edit and otherwise contribute to the projects, and sometimes it's used in a broader way, as in "the community we serve." Personally, I prefer the broader sense -- not everyone who makes use of the projects will be someone who wants (or is able) to contribute actively the way so many of us do now, but we want to serve everyone, not just those who have paid their dues.
If "the community" means "the human community," then I think we need to take that community into account when we discuss governance issues -- it seems wrong in that context to favor active editors over those who merely make positive use of the content we all provide and maintain (i.e., most users of the projects).
Me, I am happy to serve the community of editors, but I hope we serve the larger human community as well, and, as a staff member committed to the success of the projects, I hope our Board represents that community's interests, regardless of the particulars of how governance works.
--Mike