Hi Charles, * thanks for this profound and important work!
> Hello all, > > please read the first real draft of the Community Bylaws here: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws done :-) > > Feel free to comment on our beloved discuss list. Do you mean this "steering" discuss list? Or the general disc...@documentfoundation list? Sorry if I chose the wrong one... There are just two short comments I want to post: 1st: *Number of ESC members* In "Governance" (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws#Governance) it reads: "Engineering Steering Committee : ... It is composed of 5 members. " Two headings below (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws#Engineering_Steering_Committee) it reads: "The Engineering Steering Committee (ESC) is made of developers who are coopted (i.e, there's no need for election and there can be as many members of the ESC as needed). " So what is the number of ESC members? "5" or "as many as needed"? 2nd: *Financial board* The bylaws refer to a "financial board" in the "Definitions" (http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws#Definitions) under "Foundation": "The * Document Foundation may have trustees (... all members of the *Financial*, ... and Directors' boards)," as well as in the ESC paragraph (at least I understand "FB" as such): "Duties of the ESC is to provide expertise and information to the BoD, the AB, *the FB*, the Chairman, the Executive Director and any other officer of the Foundation" I don't think we should establish such a board right from the beginning, the Financial Officier should be enough - if it will be necessary it can be added later on. Best regards Bernhard -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
