On 22 May 2014 02:05, Karen Sandler <ka...@gnome.org> wrote: > On 2014-05-21 13:35, Jeff Fortin wrote: > >> Not to say that candidates shouldn't have a minimum commitment/know what >> the heck they're getting into, but at the same time, there's only so >> much people can do *in their spare time* with their daily life >> commitments. > > > As has been mentioned many times, it's a heck of a lot of work to be a GNOME > board member and there are a lot of action items that get generated, > especially while we're in transition on ED. The work load is just really > high. > > While everyone's paying close attention to these issues, I had an idea that > I thought I'd throw out there: I think it would be awesome if we could have > a list of volunteers who the board can ask to do some of the action items. > It could be a relatively low impact way to get some experience working on > things connected to the Foundation's operations and help out (and build a > resume for a future board candidacy). Some things will obviously need to be > handled by a board member, like things that are for some reason confidential > or needed to be handled by someone with corporate authority but things like: > "research payment options for website" or "price out different sticker > suppliers" or even "email foundation-list to set up a meeting" are things > that are easy to take one-off and add up for board members. We could call it > the Executive Assistance Committee or something like that (if we add GNOME > in front of that, we could be the GEACs, pronouned Geeks!) and if some > people linger in a special IRC channel (#assist?) especially during meetings > it will make it even easier for them to help out and be low impact for the > board to contact them.
There's already an action item which is ready for volunteers to take up that was sent to foundation-list recently: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-May/msg00003.html That email does not go into much detail, but essentially, we need a report on the options and how much they would cost us so that we can assess whether it's worth outsourcing handling of Friends of GNOME gifts. > Want to help? Sign up, and say if there are areas you're particularly > interested or experienced for (though anyone could be pinged for anything). > For example, I volunteer myself (in the case I am not elected): > > Karen Sandler: legal or fundraising related things in particular > > > I'm so excited by all of the interest right now and thinking we should take > advantage :D > > karen > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
