To the AFS Community, I had an idea on Thursday about the Foundation and the Board of Directors
This is purely my own idea speaking as an individual member of the community (and a suit at that), not as a Director at Sine Nomine: What if we decided to grandfather in the current Elders as the initial Board of Directors of the Foundation? The benefits of this idea would be 1) Shortcutting the interregnum between the current organization and the full fledged Foundation; 2) Ensuring de jure (as well as de facto) continuity between the current org and the Foundation; and 3) Providing a comfort level to the community that we know and trust those who will be in charge, as they¹re the people currently in charge. There are many possible permutations of this idea: A. Grandfather in the organizations that currently have Elders as organizations with Seats on the Board of Directors of the Foundation, with those seats currently occupied by the specific elders, but with the possibility of the people being replaced by the organization holding the seat at the organizations discretion. B. Grandfather in the current Elders as members of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, with any vacancies among that group occurring later to be filled by an election from among the community in accordance with a democratic process to be determined. C. Grandfather in the current Elders as members of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, with expansion and addition to the Board from among the Community as the Board¹s first agenda item for action at its first meeting. We could even combine the above (i.e., implement A+B, or A+C, or all three or some variant thereof). In my opinion, it is the Board of Directors whose membership is most critical, as the BoD has the power and responsibility to define all other parts of the Foundation (TAC, etc). We can (and should) debate how the TAC should work and be formed, but it is the authority of the Board of Directors that gives the TAC its own authority, thus, we need a BoD first, and soon. But that¹s just how I see it, speaking for myself and not for my company. Does anyone think this idea has value in helping get the Foundation going? Sincerely, Evan Macbeth
