I've served on a few boards over the years. All of them have had either
two or three year staggered terms, except GNOME. And while I consider
this a good practice, I never thought it was worth the effort to change
the GNOME Foundation, for a couple reasons. First, we usually happened
to elect a chu
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 4:35 AM, Tobias Mueller
wrote:
I guess these plans are news to most members.
I had suggested a similar change a couple years ago. My intention had
nothing to do with the operations of the board; I just want to make our
elections more meaningful and competitive. When w
Hi Tobi,
Just as an addition to what Rob said. As an example, I have been working on
some critical work for the foundation, for over a year now. This work
required extensive reading of legal, tax forms, research, etc. and is yet
to be finished. It's quite complex, and at the same time it cannot wa
On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 11:35 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Tobi,
> I guess these plans are news to most members.
They were mentioned previously in the blog posts we wrote after the
hackfest last year - see http://ramcq.net/2018/10/19/gnome-foundation-h
ackfest-2018/ - although not moved m
Hi,
On Tue, 2019-05-21 at 23:06 -0700, Philip Chimento via foundation-list
wrote:
>* However, if we are still planning to change the length of the
> board terms, we would need to do so before announcing the elections.
>* Neil: We are talking to lawyers at the moment; we may need to
> chang
