Cor, 2010/11/18 Cor Nouws <oo...@nouenoff.nl>
> Volker Merschmann wrote (16-11-10 22:14) > > > > I have a question about the Board of Directors. I see that the draft says >>> all members are chosen every year (from the Community Members) and that >>> one >>> can be member only twice consecutively. >>> Has been considered that this leads to a situation where each year people >>> have to get used to the tasks, the other board members etc. so that maybe >>> it >>> is a bit inefficient? >>> >>> In this point I'm with Cor. >> The duties of the BOD as written in >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CommunityBylaws#Board_of_Directors >> are of high importance for the development of the whole project and >> therefore long-term-orientated. They will be the premium contact for >> other projects, authorities, commercial contributors etc. >> I would recommend to drop the re-election limit in favor for a >> continous work of the BOD. >> > > A limit to re-election is good to get fresh blood and to prevent people > becoming part of the furniture. > And two years twice makes four. So that is pretty OK to benefit from > learning a job, the contacts etc. IMO, I fully second both your suggestion (the one above + the renewal at 50% each year). Best, Charles. -- E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
