RE : Re: [steering-discuss] By-Laws / BOD elections

2010-11-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Varun, Sponsors ar in the AB. The BoD is for contributors, and you can be both. We would not be the first ones to hzve that model btw, gnome has it. Charles. Le 19 nov. 2010, 4:09 AM, Varun Mittal varunmitta...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi All, I didn't mean sponsors will have more seats. I meant

Re: [steering-discuss] By-Laws / BOD elections

2010-11-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello all, Please do take a look -again- at the bylaws that I just updated: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws My modifications do not alter the text in any substantial way, however they add four points: - the ESC rules get clarified esp. regarding the election of the Chairman,

Re: [steering-discuss] By-Laws / BOD elections

2010-11-18 Thread Varun Mittal
Hi All, I didn't mean sponsors will have more seats. I meant sponsors should have some representation on board. There would be elections for rest of the seats with a predefined procedure. Why do you expect a sponsor to pour several million $ when you don't even let them participate in the

Re: [steering-discuss] By-Laws / BOD elections

2010-11-17 Thread Drew Jensen
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 15:40 +0100, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Members get the right to vote, and to elect other Members, on a one member, one vote basis - that really was the question, not specific logistics. Great, no need to follow up any further on this here, for me. Best wishes, Drew --

Re: [steering-discuss] By-Laws / BOD elections

2010-11-16 Thread Varun Mittal
Hi All, Maybe we can have a JCP like system wherein all members vote. We can also give the sponsors a particular number of seats ( non-veto powers) to the sponsors who have supported it . I propose not exactly a JCP like system but we can look at a modified version of JCP voting system What do