Re: Preparing elections of the new board

[Anne Østergaard <anne oestergaard nu>]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 09:33 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
> On 9/28/07, Anne Ãstergaard <anne oestergaard nu> wrote:
>
> >  Can any one explain to me why did it have to take almost a year for
> > Izabel to get an account?
>
> There has been an ongoing issue with the Accounts Team (Baris can sum
> it up more concisely than I can) which never did get formally written
> to any list (or if I know correctly privately on mail). Creation of
> Accounts for the LDAP is (rightly so too) not what MC does and all we
> have done is keep on pegging away at this issue.
>
> > This means that she has not been able to do any work for MC for such a
> > long time.
> >
> > In my eyes this is an example of what might very well turn persons who
> > want to do some work off.
>
> I could not agree more and I'd say I am ashamed about this happening.
> One of the reasons we were happy with the new members to the MC was
> the notion of inclusiveness which we wanted to take much beyond token
> "names on the board". This, has not happened. And however much we say
> that MC could not push things beyond their control, it has happened
> and in some small way we are also part of it.

I agree with you.

But a committee should mail the board and tell what needs to be done and
why.


We have a hand full of similar examples and the board is aware of it and
is trying hard to find ways to fix this, and similar (mainly sys admin)
problems.

Regards

Anne