<quote who="Dave Neary"> > This sounds, 2 years on, like exactly the situation we find ourselves in > now. Perhaps it is time to revisit the assumption that our organisation is > so radically different from others that we don't need/want an executive > director?
I substantially agree with everything raised in your email, but I've come to a different conclusion -- and that's okay! * I don't think we're in the dire situation described in your email. We're firmly on the small-target side of execution, but that's okay for now. * I don't think we have an assumption that our organisation is so radically different that we don't need/want an executive director. That sounds like a misinterpretation of my emphasis on previous hiring goals, which I'd be happy to work through with you if necessary. * It's more important to have a good grasp on what we want to hire for, and who we want to hire than just filling the role with a warm body. I firmly believe that hiring the wrong person is worse than having no one at all. * The current Board, during its mid-year meeting at GUADEC, chose not to put hiring on the top of its priority list for the rest of this term. * As I said in a previous mail, *things change*. I imagine that this will be one of the items a fresh Board would like to take a run at (and I'll be there with bells on). * This was one of the reasons I took the term length bylaws modification so seriously, and I regard that as a great success of this Board, given how often it has come up during my previous terms. Thanks, - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "And, most importantly, we now have modules named 'fontilus' and 'themus' -- the two founders of GROME." - Jonathon Blandford _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
