On Wed, 2014-05-21 at 14:05 -0400, Karen Sandler wrote:
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.
On thing is saying it is a lot of work, a different one is to specify *what* are the activities that means a lot work. In other words, I bet not many people really knows what a board member does or should do. With luck, there might be a general idea, but not the details. I would say the lack of a clear idea of what a board member do makes it hard to new runners to propose something, other than wishful thinking. Furthermore, I don't even have a clear idea of what current board members (who are also candidates) did during the last year as part of their duties, how much time spent on each one, and which ones could have been done without them being on the board. Just two or three things, that apparently does not require a lot of time (besides the finances, where Ekaterina has been clear). I mean, anything besides the minutes. Because candidates don't even list the actions they took part in their candidacies.
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In spite that I think is good to have such list, I would expect a board member has connection with the community and knows where to go for specific help or skill. The OWP or the travel committee were not born in a vacuum. There were directors that took contact with people who might run them, and empowered them (to some extent) to do so. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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