Re: election plans

[Nat Friedman <nat helixcode com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> Frank Hecker <frank@collab.net> writes: 
> > However I wouldn't necessarily set the time limit too short, because I
> > think it would be better to let the initial board of directors have
> > enough time to complete all the formal legal actions required as a
> > consequence of incorporation, prior to having to deal with the
> > complexity of a full election.
> > 
> 
> So should we try to elect this initial board, or just carry over the
> steering committee in that role, or... ??? 
> 
> What do people think?

>From the discussions before on this list, it seems to me that there
was a lot of support for electing a slate from the beginning.

This seems like much more democratic way of doing things, especially
since the current steering committe wasn't formed by election.

Forgive me if this sounds like classic American democratic == good
spew :-).

Nat