Re: The changing of the board

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

On lun, 2005-11-28 at 09:19 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:
> Anne �tergaard wrote:
> > The changing of the board:
> > 
> > I have been thinking that it might be an advantage to the Foundation if
> > the next board in fact took their seats immediately after the final
> > announcement of the list of candidates elected this year. An overlapping
> > period I think is not really necessary as I have a feeling that there
> > will be sufficient continuation/ ways to ask concrete advice if needed.
> 
> While I agree with the idea of board members elect getting on the 
> various lists, and getting up to speed with the state of things, as soon 
> as possible, I disagree that no transition period is needed.

If elected, I'll be much more comfortable if there's a transition
period. It doesn't need to be very long, but I think it would be useful
to learn how the board is working from the inside before doing some
stupid^Wgreat things (at least for me) :-)

Vincent

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