Hello, [email protected] I'm running for a position on the BOD. Please vote for me.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Nicol <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:44 PM Subject: Re: X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election To: Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> Cc: Daniel Stone <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected] On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Luc Verhaegen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:43:04PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:42:33AM -0600, David Nicol wrote: >> > A vote for David Nicol is a vote for transparency! >> >> Full transparency into exactly what all the board members know still >> wouldn't tell you much more than what you already know. > > It will at least give us an idea as to why we are voting at all. > > Currently we have absolutely nothing to go by. I have experience with participating in effective meetings with a time-zone constrained committees going back to the early nineties, when I was a founding member of an on-line game exploring the dynamics of bylaws. Which still exists. The written medium is perfectly fine for holding meetings -- it worked for the founding fathers of the USA two hundred and change years ago, with transparency still available in the form of things like The Federalist Papers (which I haven't read, but I would like to find the time, I think.) So as a campaign promise, I, as a board member, will attempt to shift the meetings into a less synchronous mode. Given a wiki on which all parties may describe their positions, real progress can be made with far less procedural infighting than you get with a synchronous meeting with the awful bottleneck of Who Has The Floor. That game had participants in Australia, the USA, and Europe, both eastern and western. My big takeaway was, you don't want to get in a position opposed to Norwegians in December in a play-by-e-mail game, as you will lose. -- Is it the time when there isn't time to discuss but there is time to act yet? _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
