Ray Henry wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 19:05 -0400, John Kasunich wrote: > <s> >> There is a "president" position on the board, but it is not particularly >> different than any other board member. The president presides at board >> meetings if needed. However all board members have equal votes. > > Um. Perhaps this is a quibble but, no we no longer have a president as > a member of the board, we have a chairman. This change was made soon > after the last election and Chris took on that role. A quote from the > minutes of the IRC meeting, December 3, 2005 > > "... > Much discussion about whether the board needs a chairman (mostly > to direct IRC meetings). > > "Motion by JMK: > that we elect a chairman > Second by Ray > Votes: > Ray, Alex, Jon: AYE > JMK, Cradek: abstain > > "Nominations for Chairman: Ray, JMK, Cradek > Ray declined > Cradek was elected by a 3-to-2 margin." > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?BoardOfDirectors > > This was a change and it is reflected in the bylaws. > > "The new board has conferred and decided to have a 'chairperson' > rather than a 'president'. > > "It was further decided that Chris Radek will be the > chairperson." > > http://www.linuxcnc.org/content/view/12/10/lang,en/ > > The remainder of John's post is correct that the board members are now > considered equal, the chair presides and applies order to meetings. >
Oops, yes, I forgot that the title changed from president to chairman. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
