On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:52:38PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote: > Change of topic, sorry. > > On 10-1-2015 1:32, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > As a > > reminder, votes need to be called by the committee chair to be official. > > Do you want to change this to offload the burden Bryce?
Most of the work is the writing of the proposal, which Tav took care of quite nicely, and then following up on any implementation details. I always appreciate help with that latter bit, but in the case of conference travel I think we have the processes sorted out well enough that I rarely need to be involved in it. > Also, if only the committee chair can start voting on a proposal, then > the committee chair can very simply block anything from happening with > which he does not approve. True in theory, but in practice it's not quite so easy. The bylaws we're currently chartered under say: The Committee will elect a single individual to communicate with the Conservancy (the "Representative") and shall notify the Conservancy promptly following the election of a new Representative. The Representative will have the authority to instruct the Conservancy on the Project's behalf on all matters. So, if the committee chair is not representing the committee properly, the committee can simply elect a different chair. In other words, if the chair started blocking stuff willy nilly, then the committee would just boot him and pick someone new. Bryce ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
