There was a comment in the minutes about board members being overwhelmed. The Foundation is also looking for an executive director and there seem to be not many responses. The combination of these two factors must be a pain, specially when the GNOME project and Foundation itself seem to be in a good momentum. During the board election and the resize board referendum there was some discussion about what the board members are and aren't supposed to do, and also how much time they should invest in tasks. Can you give a brief feedback of the current situation in the context of those discussions (if you have the time)? ;) About hiring someone, maybe the profile required is just too complex. Not for the complexity of each requirement but the combination of both. Speak on behalf the Foundation, sign checks, send mugs and live in Boston are a fairly diverse set of skills / features. Put that on the top of the fact that the person to be hired needs to be competent but available and you get an equation difficult to solve. Wouldn't be better to hire an accountancy company to deal with all the money & tax & legal related stuff and then liberate a GNOMEr to do the rest? Thanks to GUADEC I'm being half-liberated and it's being a very interesting experience. Maybe liberating someone with a sysadmin/infrastructure background would be really useful to solve this and more problems. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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