On Jan 24, 2015, at 3:20 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Andrea proposes election of a new PMC Chair as the #1 short-term priority. > Here are some discussion points. > > 1. TIMING > > Once the AOO Project has selected a candidate to be the AOO PMC > Chair, a motion must be taken to the ASF Board for their election > of the proposed Chair. That ratification, or its rejection, > happens at a Board Meeting > <http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/boardmeetings.html>. > The template motion is at > > <https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/board/templates/change-chair-resolution.txt> > (accessible by ASF Committers). > > The next meeting of the board is at 2014-02-18T18:30Z. A motion > to the board would be posted at least two days before that. An > appropriate time for balloting would be from 2014-02-09T20:00Z > to around 2014-02-15T00:00Z (midnight), for example. If that's > too soon, then in time for March. > > The March meeting is at 2014-03-18T18:30Z. > > The April meeting is at 2014-04-15T18:30Z and the quarterly > report of the AOO PMC is required in advance of that meeting. > This is presumably the first report provided by the new Chair. > > 2. OFFICIAL DUTIES OF THE CHAIR > > The Chair will be made a Member of the ASF if not one already.
This is incorrect. The Board is NOT empowered to elect Members. Members elect the Board. The Membership MAY nominate and elect the Chair to be a Foundation Member, but that is up to the Members at a member's meeting. Regards, Dave > The Chair will be an Officer of the ASF, the Vice President > For OpenOffice. See > <https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair>. > > Apart from the Chair's responsibilities with respect to the > Foundation, the Chair has the same responsibilities on the > PMC as any PMC member. > <https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#pmc>. > > (I note in the bylaws of the ASF that the terms of the Chair > and of the PMC members are stated to be one year. I don't > believe that's quite how it is being done.) > > 3. OTHER EXPECTATIONS > > A number of other expectations concerning what the Project > expects of a Chair have been presented on the AOO dev list. > It is useful to discuss what those are and what sort of > commitment is expected. > > It might be unwise to inject responsibilities for the Chair > that are not the responsibilities of any and every PMC member, > since the Chair serves the project as a volunteer as do the > PMC, committers, and contributors of all forms. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 09:56 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice > > I see five short-term (say, something that must be either done or put > towards completion by end of February) priorities for OpenOffice as a > project. They overlap, and we, especially the PMC, need to agree on how > to order them, otherwise we risk pulling in different directions and > mutually blocking the initiatives from others. > > 1) Election a new PMC Chair (the Chair has one, and clearly defined, > role: being the liaison officer between the OpenOffice PMC and Apache; > he/she can do much more, and I have been doing much more and I'll still > continue with the rest; but this is not part of the Chair duties). > > [ ... ] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
