Hi, On 10/23/2014 01:25 PM, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > Absolutely no force required. I would hope that the existing board > members would recognise the virtue of a fresh mandate and a clean start.
A radical step, but I like it. I'd be more than happy to withdraw my candidacy if there was a spirit of rebooting. We wouldn't even need seven new candidates; we could simply elect a few and they could then add new un-elected board members as they like (article 79 in the AoA). Instead of rushing through such an unprecedented measure, we could also do it in a more orderly fashion: Have this year's AGM decide that the board should prepare to resign altogether at the next AGM, and prepare the election of a full new board. This event would then be known long in advance and people would have time to prepare their bids for a seat on the rebooted body. Independent of the actual legal powers of the AGM, certainly no board member could ignore such an express declaration by the very people they're serving. Another thing, while we're throwing doors wide open. In many political systems around the world, the electorate doesn't elect a group of people with wildly different goals. Instead, people form parties and the electorate decides for a party, and the party will then form the government. (Grossly simplifying, I know.) That way, people in government have to fight each other to a much lesser degree than they would if government were comprised of people following different political views and goals. By appointing seven directors individually, on the one hand we have the advantage that they can keep each other in check; we, as the electorate, don't have to be super careful, if we elect someone who's incompetent or a kleptomaniac, the others on the board will hopefully notice and fix it somehow. On the other hand, there's the danger of seeding the board with a couple of difficult personalities that make life hard and reduce productiveness for the rest of them. Should we perhaps vote for "teams"? Just like a team can assemble and bid for holding a SotM, should we allow a team to bid for being the OSMF board for a year? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk