Re: Questions for the candidate

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

Hello,

> > The reason to have a president is so you can delegate plenty of mundane
> > decisions to someone you trust.  In the same way that every Gnome
> > Foundation member votes to have someone they trust on the board to run
> > the Foundation.
> 
> The board can already do this. Look at all the action items being
> assigned each meeting. I'm skeptical that one person can do all the
> action items better than the entire board with its range of specialist
> skills or am I missing your point here ?

It is nice that people are picking action items, but the board calls
(that I take it, you have never been to) turn into a bi-weekly meeting
where you have 11 people listening, debating and deciding over things
that are not important.

Most items discussed on those calls are not necessary, hence someone
could clear up the queue a lot faster and keep the board focused on
things that actually matter.

Miguel.