On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:42:17AM -0800, Carl Worth wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:03:15 -0500 (EST), Leon Shiman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I do not think suggesting that a member just "not vote" is an appropriate > > response from a Board Member to a legitimate concern about the election. > > Fair enough. I'm definitely not trying to discourage participation. > > > Isn't it the Board's (and it's members') responsibility to ensure that the > > membership is sufficiently well-informed about the issues and the > > candidates > > for election to be able to exercise their voting rights. > > Definitely! One unfortunate thing that's happened here is that concerns > were raised at the closing of the voting period, (rather than at the > initial announcements of the upcoming election or the original > announcements of the slate of candidates). > > > A better response > > might be to find out if this was a widespread opinion, and then re-consider > > the closing of voting until the membership was better informed? > > That might be. But that's not a response that could have come from me, > at least. The election is run by the election committee, (which consists > of those board members whose terms are not expiring this year). So I > couldn't have had any influence here. > > > Accepting membership on the X.Org Board means accepting responsibility to > > respond to members' legitimate concerns - if not to anticipate them. And > > you > > asked to be elected. > > Absolutely! The concerns about meeting minutes and annual reports not > being available are legitimate concerns. And both of these are being > responded to now. > > Hopefully, going forward, the membership will raise any concerns in as > timely a fashion as possible, and not only annually. (Though, > admittedly, the board hasn't historically solicited direct input from > the membership other than at the time of annual election.) > > -Carl
Timely, heh... The elections were one month late according to the latest updated schedule. Right in the middle of FOSDEM preparations too, which i think is a valid excuse from my side for not being able to respond earlier. As brought up before; elections are pretty much the only event where anyone gets to see concrete things from the board. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
