El dl 05 de 06 del 2006 a les 15:42 +0200, en/na Anne Østergaard va escriure: > The Board would like to propose to you a temporary enlargement of the > board with two persons: Behdad Esfahbod and Germán Poó-Caamaño. I wasn't in the board when this issue was discussed, and as a new board board I'm unsure what should I do now if I disagree. Transparency is always a good path, I guess. - Consequent with the past Increasing now the board size seems inappropriate after the referendum discussions and result and without having made an extended use of asking explicitly for help and delegating within the GNOME community. - Size is not the problem We seem to agree that the problem is not the size of the board but the current circumstances that make many board members have less time than expected. If size is not the problem, the enlargement is probably not the solution. It's like having unsatisfactory sexual live and going to the doctor to enlarge your breast or your penis. At the beginning it might look like a change and a progress, but the root of the problem is still there, and possibly larger now. - Delegating and collaborating with people out of the board There was a lot of discussion about the few time required to be a good board member, let things happen, stay out of the way... We simply need to put in practice all that. For instance, invite someone to pick the Boston Yellow Pages, make some calls and come up with 3 companies we could hire for our accountancy and representation. Delegations like this might originate some crisis situations but since we are already in a crisis situation... what can we loose? And what can we learn. Adding 2 people to the board might be methadone to keep the problem of not sharing and delegating with less pain. - Too busy to delegate and hire We know the paradox of not having time to delegate or hire, making an overwhelming situation deeper. A solution is to stop the machine consciously (many times is already stopped, unconsciously) and concentrate in delegating. An intermediate option is simply do less things or not letting new tasks start before the delegation/hiring problem is solved. We missed something because of this? Yes, but how many thing are we missing by not delegating/hiring. - The quest of finding the magic full time profile No wonder we didn't find the magic profile: a yin accountant & administrator + a yang fundraiser + based in Boston + competent and available + of course familiar with free software and GNOME (discussed at http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2006-April/msg00023.html ). It is probably better and easier to hire the services of a mercenary business representation based in Boston + hiring one or more part time people we know and trust, based wherever and able to travel when it's needed. - Boston (Massachusetts, USA) It is a danger to have a board elected with candidates from everywhere that needs to have at least one member in a specific city: Boston. What if jrb wasn't elected, didn't want to renew or decides to leave some day? This is per se a reason to hire the services of a company (something theoretically more stable than an individual) and visit them every three months, either picking the Boston metro or a flight. - Conclusion The board is overwhelmed and needs help. The fact that the board didn't share the discussion since the earliest stage but came up with a pre-conclusion is, I think, already a symptom of how overwhelmed the board members are and how far we all still are from opening the board and start sharing and delegating with the GNOME community. Many tasks the board can't delegate easily are related to services that can be hired. Let's concentrate on that, while we review publicly the list of priorities and see who can help on what inside / outside the board. Of course nothing of this has to do with the capabilities of Behdad and Germán, who could be without doubt good board members. It has not to do either with the fact that I joined the board as a first patch for this problem. I had these opinions months ago, when I couldn't imagine I would join the board during this year. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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