David, I'd like to answer Florian's mail in details -or think about it further- but I do like your suggestions below (all of them). Mind adding them yourself? My bandwidth is... low today and I'm with my family.
Thanks, Charles. 2010/12/5 David Nelson <comme...@traduction.biz> > Hi Charles, :-) > > I have proofread, edited (no changes of your intentions), reformatted, > etc., the Bylaws. I removed all remaining notes. The text could be > considered "good to go", barring 4 points below. > > I like the "Solemn Address and Impeachment of the Board of Directors" > clause. On reflection, it certainly addresses the greater part of *my* > concerns. > > However: > > 1) In the "Revisions of the Community Bylaws" section, I would request > to add this sentence: "The Community must be notified of any changes > whatsoever to the Bylaws through an explicit public announcement via a > commonly-consulted public medium." > > (In practice, that would be the [tdf-discuss] mailing list, for example.) > > 2) In the "Engineering Steering Committee" section, I would request to > add these two sentences: "The list of members of the ESC must be > published via a commonly-consulted public medium, and must be > maintained up to date at all times. The Community must be notified of > any changes whatsoever to the membership, composition and functioning > of the ESC through an explicit public announcement via a > commonly-consulted public medium." > > (In practice, the list would be published on the wiki, and > announcements would be made to the [tdf-discuss] mailing list, for > example.) > > 3) In the "Advisory Board" section, I would request to add these two > sentences: "The list of members of the AB must be published via a > commonly-consulted public medium, and must be maintained up to date at > all times. The Community must be notified of any changes whatsoever to > the membership, composition and functioning of the AB through an > explicit public announcement via a commonly-consulted public medium." > > 4) In the "Membership Committee" section, I would request to replace > the sentence "This decision by the BoD has to be made public before > the decision enters into effect." with: > > "The Community must be notified of any changes whatsoever to the > membership, composition and functioning of the MC through an explicit > public announcement via a commonly-consulted public medium, before the > decision enters into effect." > > In my very humble opinion, these final small modifications would > ensure the openness and transparency that I know you all want to > implement. > > Would all this be OK? > > David Nelson > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to > steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org<steering-discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
