I thought it was individuals signing the mentor agreements at least, though
it’s been a while since I filled that out.

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 20:55, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 9:07 PM Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 4:00 AM Griselda Cuevas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > What's coming next:
> > > - Katia, Awasum and Matt will have full autonomy to work as the ASF
> > > outreachy coordinators. I've asked them to share updates with the
> committee
> > > weekly from now until we launch
> > >
> >
> > One small nitpick, and it could be me misinterpreting the language;
> >
> > "full autonomy" can't be delegated to a non-officer of ASF. Any
> commitment
> > on behalf of the ASF requires an officer, and that it is within the
> > officer's mandate.
> >
> > I hope/assume that you mean, that they will do a lot of the work, keep
> you
> > in the loop and any official agreement/commitment on behalf of ASF is in
> > your hands, preferably consulted with President (ultimately responsible
> for
> > a bad decision) and possibly helpful (ex-)Directors.
>
> The closest parallel I see is that VP Conferences (Rich) has
> designated a number of (non-officer) Event Coordinators, each of which
> is the key decision maker for that event.  If coodinators are
> producing weekly reports I'm confident that the oversight requirements
> will be amply met, particularly given the number of current and
> previous Directors on this committee.
>
> Signing authority could conceivably be a concern, but Outreachy only
> requires interns and mentors to sign agreements.  This does bring up
> an interesting question: are mentors signing as individuals or on
> behalf of the ASF.  Perhaps someone could reach to Mozilla to see how
> they handle this?
>
> - Sam Ruby
>
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Matt Sicker <[email protected]>

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