volunteer! (was Re: Board of Directors Elections 2014 - Candidacy - Karen Sandler)

[Karen Sandler <karen gnome org>]

On 2014-05-21 13:35, Jeff Fortin wrote:

> Not to say that candidates shouldn't have a minimum commitment/know 
> what
> the heck they're getting into, but at the same time, there's only so
> much people can do *in their spare time* with their daily life
> commitments.

As has been mentioned many times, it's a heck of a lot of work to be a 
GNOME board member and there are a lot of action items that get 
generated, especially while we're in transition on ED. The work load is 
just really high.

While everyone's paying close attention to these issues, I had an idea 
that I thought I'd throw out there: I think it would be awesome if we 
could have a list of volunteers who the board can ask to do some of the 
action items. It could be a relatively low impact way to get some 
experience working on things connected to the Foundation's operations 
and help out (and build a resume for a future board candidacy). Some 
things will obviously need to be handled by a board member, like things 
that are for some reason confidential or needed to be handled by someone 
with corporate authority but things like: "research payment options for 
website" or "price out different sticker suppliers" or even "email 
foundation-list to set up a meeting" are things that are easy to take 
one-off and add up for board members. We could call it the Executive 
Assistance Committee or something like that (if we add GNOME in front of 
that, we could be the GEACs, pronouned Geeks!) and if some people linger 
in a special IRC channel (#assist?) especially during meetings it will 
make it even easier for them to help out and be low impact for the board 
to contact them.

Want to help? Sign up, and say if there are areas you're particularly 
interested or experienced for (though anyone could be pinged for 
anything). For example, I volunteer myself (in the case I am not 
elected):

Karen Sandler: legal or fundraising related things in particular


I'm so excited by all of the interest right now and thinking we should 
take advantage :D

karen