Hi Frederik, I like this idea of having the mandate to redesign how the board works.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/23/2014 01:25 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > > Absolutely no force required. I would hope that the existing board > > members would recognise the virtue of a fresh mandate and a clean start. > > A radical step, but I like it. I'd be more than happy to withdraw my > candidacy if there was a spirit of rebooting. We wouldn't even need > seven new candidates; we could simply elect a few and they could then > add new un-elected board members as they like (article 79 in the AoA). > Interesting, the idea of maybe people elect who they think is best qualified to reboot how the board rather than just someone they generally agree with. > > Instead of rushing through such an unprecedented measure, we could also > do it in a more orderly fashion: Have this year's AGM decide that the > board should prepare to resign altogether at the next AGM, and prepare > the election of a full new board. This event would then be known long in > advance and people would have time to prepare their bids for a seat on > the rebooted body. Independent of the actual legal powers of the AGM, > certainly no board member could ignore such an express declaration by > the very people they're serving. > I think this process could be outlined and set-up in such a way that it could happen. Certainly with a year (okay perhaps less since we want people to have plenty of time to be candidates). I think the board over the next year would need to commit to a couple in person meetings and more rigorous reporting that currently happens. > > > Should we perhaps vote for "teams"? Just like a team can assemble and > bid for holding a SotM, should we allow a team to bid for being the OSMF > board for a year? > I think voting for teams would probably put us in a similar situation around election time but it would be all or nothing. Though I am interested in ways to help with cohesion. Perhaps part of it is simply an issue of general exhaustion from serving on the OSMF board for too long right now. -Kate > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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