Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-25 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 09:45 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote: [...] many of us notice that the large size of the group causes irrelevant distraction, even when urgent decisions are necessary. That happens even with the best people. I find it happens with teleconference consisting of only two or

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-25 Thread Fernando San Martín Woerner
El mar, 25-10-2005 a las 16:48 +0100, Bill Haneman escribió: I agree with Liam. His observations match my interpretation of my experiences on the Board. In the Members meeting in stuttgart we've disscused this kind of topics, i agree that board need leadership, and as Liam and Bill say

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-25 Thread Richard M. Stallman
Actually, no you can't. Perhaps there are those who know how much each board member has done but quite honestly, I have no clue. And short of manually pinging all of them and trying to extract the information from them not only about themselves but the others on the board

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-25 Thread Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 11:39 -0400, Liam R E Quin wrote: I still think the problems being reported are nothing to do with the size of the group but to do with lack of clear process and with poor delegation. These are not easy to fix, but I don't think changing the group size will help. On

Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members

2005-10-25 Thread Alan Horkan
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Bill Haneman wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:48:22 +0100 From: Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Liam R E Quin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: foundation-list@gnome.org, Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Vote NO on referendum to reduce board members I agree with