board/ED contact (was Re: A question for the candidates)

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2012-05-25 12:54, gnomeuser gmail com wrote:
> 2012/5/25 Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic 
> > that
> > you are interested in doing this important work.
>
> Thank you.
>
> > A question for you:
> >
> > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced
> > from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view?
> > If it is, what do you think can be done about it?
>
> I think the Board could be more visible, currently being on the
> outside I recently spent 3 weeks with non-communications with my 
> board
> contact (Karen) during the late stages of planning a hackfest. Not
> knowing what to do or what the protocol was proved fairly distressing
> and I suspect not helpful to GNOME overall if such situations proves
> widespread.

Since you mention this on Foundation list I'd also like to apologize 
for this here - your requests came at a time I was dealing with health 
issues and I should have been more communicative about that. I believe 
everything was resolved with adequate time but I'm sorry that you found 
it at all distressing. (On the specific issues at hand, I thought I'd 
wrapped up the outstanding portion directly with Udesh, but we can 
definitely talk more about it privately if you'd like.)

I know you also say that you haven't heard any reports of widespread 
problems, but this is a good opportunity to say here to everyone that if 
there is some request you are waiting on, please do not hesitate to ping 
me on IRC (I'm karenesq) or to reach out to others if you feel like 
there's something that's getting dropped. The board's email (with me and 
Rosanna) is board-list gnome org and you can always cc that, which will 
get to everyone! For me personally, I prefer more contact - you won't 
irritate me  and I feel terrible when things slip through the cracks :)

karen

> There are some minor things I would like to see, if you contact the
> board list, getting an acknowledge that your question was received 
> and
> notification of when the next meeting where there will be time to
> debate it, if needed, is scheduled would help a lot.
>
> Likewise I don't think I have seen breakdowns of how Board members
> have voted on issues anywhere which I would personally consider
> valuable in terms of selecting a candidate to vote for (or to hold
> someone accountable).
>
> That being said, I think I would like to observe the Board more
> closely to see where it can do better in feeling as a more organic
> part of GNOME before making any big promises or suggestions. I only
> have some limited personal experience and haven't heard any reports 
> of
> widespread problems. Perhaps it is an area where we need more input 
> to
> identify our problems, so I would like to encourage people to step
> forward and tells us where it hurts.
>
> David
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