On Dec 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Stephen McConnell wrote:
Authority without accountability?
I'm could imagine why you and other members of the board feel comfortable with this. Make a chair accountable to the committee and the next thing you know will be board accountability to chairs. Oh god - would that send a rocket up the darker passages of the ASF!
I realize that this is little more than a filibuster, and I probably should be smacked for feeding *this* troll, but I'm a board member, I voted for pushing Avalon over the side, and wonder why you believe that we could invert the oversight structure? Would the membership then be accountable to the board?
We are structured to provide demonstrable oversight of the organization on behalf of the membership. We are accountable to the membership. We are elected by the membership, and can be thrown out, singly or en masse, by the membership.
To that end, the board is charged with establishing PMCs, which are managed by an officer of the corporation, the PMC Chair. This person has the right to make decisions on behalf of the corporation (being an officer) that he or she considers to be in the best interest of the corporation.
Where's the problem?
geir
(For the record, I support the actions of the board in this matter, and specifically, Greg's explanation of how things work...)
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