Re: Questions for the candidate

["Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>]

> On Llu, 2004-11-22 at 16:47, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>> My personal feeling would be to have the board should elect a president
>> that would have executive powers to make decisions without having to
>> convey the so regular meetings that we have nowadays.   The board elects
>> the president, and the board can remove the president if it fails to do
>> his job.
>
> What vendor does the president belong to 8)
>
> I don't think this is realistic. The foundation by nature is a
> compromise based system and if there is a president either the president
> will be replaced every week (other vendors vote to remove) or would be
> even more powerless than the existing committee ("if I do anything I
> lose my job")

Isn't there already a Chairperson of the Board who does the anti-entropy
stuff?

Why do decisions have to wait for meetings? There's a mailing list. I
think the chairperson should be able to call for a decision on a mailing
list and set a time limit. I don't think we should be encouraging anyone
to just decide without consultation.

Murray Cumming
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