> It still looks strange to have the voting body to vote to extend the term
> of the current board, not the same as a general election.
>
> Extending the terms of some leadership tend to happen under situations
> where something prevents the holding of regular elections... nothing
> comparable e
It still looks strange to have the voting body to vote to extend the term of
the current board, not the same as a general election.
Extending the terms of some leadership tend to happen under situations where
something prevents the holding of regular elections... nothing comparable
exists here for
> I don't have anything against the current board, BUT extending a term
> after the voters cast their vote is very wrong.
As mentioned in the original mail: "(Note that the Board is unlikely to make
a change like this without formally consulting our membership via a
referendum.)" -> that means c
It's like extending George Bush's term by two years... a rather drastic
thing to do...
(No, I don't mean anyone on the board is like George Bush... sorry if that
offends anyone)
On 8/7/07, Dave Neary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > So here's the proposal: I'd like t
Shaun McCance a écrit :
> On another note, if anybody actually has a problem with
> extending this board's term (I don't, and nobody else
> who's replied so far seems to), another option would
> be to phase the shift in over the next two or three
> years by extending those terms by three or two mon
> While this year's and last year's GUADECs were in July, previous GUADECs
> have been in April (2001), May (2005), and June (2004). If we have
> elections in May and June, then we wouldn't want to have future GUADECs
> any earlier than July. I don't know if that's a problem, but it is worth
>
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 22:21 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is an issue various previous Boards have discussed, and it came up very
> briefly during GUADEC this year, but I'm going to do the bullet-taking thing
> I enjoy so much, and propose it here for real. :-)
>
> Currently the GNO
