Re: Petition for referendum

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 18:27 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:

>   The section of our bylaws defining the number of elected directors is
> Article VIII section 2 c) , a reduction to 7 would also affects the maximum
> number of directors, as no more than 40% of the elected members can have the
> same affiliation:
>    40% of 7 is 2.8 , this mean that a reduction to 7 would not allow more
> than 2 representatives from the same affiliation.

	That's an interesting point. By my reckoning, that would mean that this
years board would consist of[1]:

Owen Taylor
Luis Villa 
Jody Goldberg
Daniel Veillard
Tim Ney
Murray Cumming
Christian Schaller

	instead of:

Owen Taylor
Luis Villa
Jody Goldberg
Daniel Veillard
Jonathan Blandford
Federico Mena-Quintero
Tim Ney
Miguel de Icaza
Murray Cumming
Christian Schaller
David Neary

	Meaning we'd have the same board, but without Jonathan, Federico,
Miguel and Dave.

	Would that make for a more effective board?

Cheers,
Mark.

[1] - Yes, its not entirely accurate. Some people on the hypothetical
board-of-seven may not have run for election at all if the board size
was smaller.