On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 09:22:17PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2005-10-24 at 20:05 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > > I totally disagree. The referendum was created because we have board > > members that do nothing at all. Why would you want members of the board > > that do nothing? Some board members only wanted to be on the board > > So vote for members who do things. If you have less members and they > then turn out not to do anything will be better or worse
With less members they will be forced to step down. That is my intention. After each year I want to see what each board member has accomplished. I do not understand why it acceptable to do nothing. The solution shouldn't be to get more people. I also do not think less people will solve it, just that 11 is too much and is one of the causes. I want to vote for people who do things. But what are their names? I think we have at least 2 board members who are busy. With 11 available positions and (last year) 12 people who wanted to be on the board reducing the board size seems like a logical choice. > > The board should be smaller. With 11 people everyone expects someone > > else to do the job. > > Thats not IMHO caused by the size of the board (well unless you reduce > it to one person) but by a lack of definite responsibilities fixed with > each board member. Far better to make one person charged with PR, one > with infrastructure, one with corporate politics etc so that for the > general case its clear who to contact and who is responsible Agreed, we need clear responsibilities. But having 11 positions is over doing it. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list