time to (re)consider preferential voting?

2008-02-16 Thread Luis Villa
[Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.] Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential voting to select the board. At the time I opposed it, for reasons I don't fully recall but which in retrospect

Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

2008-02-16 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Luis Villa wrote: I'm still trying to puzzle through the bylaws (which are a bit of a mess wrt voting) as to what it would take to actually enact this change (bottom line is probably that the board can just say 'it should be this way'), but in the meantime I thought it might be good to

Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

2008-02-16 Thread Jonathon Jongsma
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: [Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.] Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential voting to select the board. At the time I opposed

Re: time to (re)consider preferential voting?

2008-02-16 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 10:53 -0500, Luis Villa wrote: [Speaking purely as a Foundation member and not as a member of the Board; I've not discussed this with the Board at all.] Some years ago the Foundation considered the use of preferential voting to select the board. At the time I opposed