Hi Dom, El dv 09 de 06 del 2006 a les 11:31 -0400, en/na Dominic Lachowicz va escriure: > What > problems is the board facing that cannot be handled by the current > members plus delegation as appropriate? This is a good question (the other ones as well, but at least I can say something about this one). In the board meeting of last Wednesday we discussed possible and easy to implement ways to improve the communication and collaboration between the board and people willing to have a higher implication and participation in foundation/board tasks. Good communication eases collaboration, and good collaboration eases trust. Trust is the root of many problems of delegation: sharing or delegating a private task to someone you trust and collaborate takes 5 minutes (ok, maybe more). The same action without regular communication-collaboration-trust takes more time, and risk. Jeff is preparing a proposal. I just wanted to provide some informal and personal feedback so you don't think that the board is keeping the temporary enlargement as the only or primary option to consider. > IMHO, history now repeats itself.) Another interesting point, that brings an issue... In our current setting it is very unlikely that the current board is going to criticize openly something specific about the last board. I believe the way the board is mounted and unmounted every year makes difficult to make (self)criticism openly. It's not like one party losing an election and a new party coming in (system that has its defects but at least assures criticism and review of the past actions). This is not something unique to the GNOME Foundation, this is a problem intrinsic in any organization voting for individuals that suddenly need to work as a compact team, and then be renewed quite often (like once a year). The problem is clearer when some individuals repeat, and some come in for the first time. Maybe a solution would be that the team leaving the board makes not only a meeting with the new board members, but also a last internal meeting to write up a public report of which things went well and why, and which things went bad and why. And/or a summary of the same questions answered individually by each board member. Hackers know that documenting is the best way to avoid known mistakes. -- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org
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