Re: some issues about membership

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Bart Decrem <bart@eazel.com> writes:

> 2.  We should elect a board of directors after LWE.  We are trying to
> move too fast.  First we should complete the work on the charter of the
> foundation, then we create the foundation legally, then we hold
> elections.  This will also give us more time to make sure we have a clean
> membership list and we can figure out the election logistics better.
> We'll also have more time to put together a slate.   If we are filing
> legal papers and need to have a board of directors now, we can just make
> that the current Steering Committee, and they will be replaced by the
> elected board of directors.   Maciej has expressed this opinion most
> forcefully.

We already have the problem that people don't like the Steering Committee
and the way decisions are made in the GNOME project because the steercom
basically has all the power right now without being elected.

So just moving over the steercom is a non-issue here and we'll offend
even more people with it.

We need to do a real vote and there need to be more than one slate.

-- 
Martin Baulig
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