On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Evan Macbeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >
I am the chair of the committee that runs the elections for another non-profit organization. Every two years we work to find suitable candidates, set up the slate and then run the elections themselves. When candidates for a board of directors are chosen, the committee looks at certain criteria: Does this person have the time to expend on this effort? Does this person play well with others? Does this person have the goals of improving the organization? Have they shown a committment to the organization and do they have a broad understanding of what it's long-term goals are? It's not easy finding 10-15 people who fit this AND are willing, out of a pool of about 1500 people, but we manage. The first board was the hardest -- we had to find people who were willing to put in the extra time to get things going, as, unlike OpenAFS, we were starting from scratch. By the way, our board of directors is nine people, and they work together quite well. Moose not speaking for my employer or openafs or any other organization I might belong to _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
