2012/5/25 Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > > Thanks to all the candidates for stepping forward. It's fantastic that > you are interested in doing this important work.
Thank you. > A question for you: > > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view? > If it is, what do you think can be done about it? I think the Board could be more visible, currently being on the outside I recently spent 3 weeks with non-communications with my board contact (Karen) during the late stages of planning a hackfest. Not knowing what to do or what the protocol was proved fairly distressing and I suspect not helpful to GNOME overall if such situations proves widespread. There are some minor things I would like to see, if you contact the board list, getting an acknowledge that your question was received and notification of when the next meeting where there will be time to debate it, if needed, is scheduled would help a lot. Likewise I don't think I have seen breakdowns of how Board members have voted on issues anywhere which I would personally consider valuable in terms of selecting a candidate to vote for (or to hold someone accountable). That being said, I think I would like to observe the Board more closely to see where it can do better in feeling as a more organic part of GNOME before making any big promises or suggestions. I only have some limited personal experience and haven't heard any reports of widespread problems. Perhaps it is an area where we need more input to identify our problems, so I would like to encourage people to step forward and tells us where it hurts. David _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list