On 10/27/05, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="Vincent Untz"> > > > On Thu, October 27, 2005 03:15, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > 7 is way too small to represent the diversity of our community. Consider > > > it in these terms: 2 people from 3 contributing companies and 1 other > > > person. > > > > > > No thanks. Our community deserves a diverse board, and structured > > > leadership for our organisation. > > > > Well, looking at the previous elections results, I see a lot of Novell, > > Red Hat (and in the past, Sun) people in the board. There were some > > "independant" people too, but not that much. > > > > I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just trying to show some facts. > > > > So, if I follow your logic, I would say we shouldn't accept more than 2 > > (or 3) people from the same company in a board with 11 directors. Does it > > sound like a change you would support? > > We could do that. However, I was using the worst case scenario of a board > with 7 directors to demonstrate the possible reduction in diversity. There > is less opportunity for fresh faces to be part of the organisation... Which > counters your "no more popularity contest" comments. It's going to be HARDER > to get someone like Dave Neary on the board. > > Let's get this really clear: The proposal to reduce the number of board > members was based on the reduction of diversity of opinion so as "to make > decisions more easily".
You can try to make it clear like that, but that's just not the case. That was how Dave presented it, and I completely disagreed with those reasons for the change (even if not publicly). But that was not by any means the only reason for the proposal. The reason I voted yes was that it appears to me that the majority of the board members didn't really want to be on the board; it's possible that I have judged wrongly but the past couple of elections left that strong impression and Luis' emails seemed to strongly confirm that. Elijah _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
