Re: Temporaray enlargement of the GNOME Board with 3 persons

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hi,

David Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andreas J. Guelzow wrote:
> > So, the board can decide how many people it wants to have elected and
> > then it can add an arbitrary number of additional members after the
> > election. Why do we have elections in the first place?
>
> The board must have at least 7 people. Aside from that, your summary is
> correct. But then, we're supposed to trust our board members at election
> time - that's why we vote for them, isn't it? :)
>
> Seriously - the board will not abuse this, but co-opting members onto
> the board to handle workload is a common occurrence - as is setting up
> empowered sub-committees.

Will the new members have full voting rights on the board? I'm not sure 
I really mind either way given my previous experiences on the board, but 
I think we need to be careful about this since we're setting a precedent 
here.


Glynn