On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
By now, just two Board members explicitly stated what do they think about Jimmy's action: Jan-Bart de Vreede and Ting Chen (who explained his position in details).
According to not precise Board's statement I may guess who supports Jimmy's action and who doesn't. However, I don't want to guess. As a member of community who directly or through the chapters elects five Board members and other four through the delegation given to the previous five members, I want to know positions of other Board members.
Well, we as a community don't require such individual statements about any other issue; I realize this may be a personal dealbreaker for you but it doesn't seem like the single most important issue of our day. I'd much rather hear what individual board members think about strategy or the budget, which is of much more lasting import for how the foundation gets run.
I do wish that there were a better way for board members to participate as community members in discussions and explore issues without their every move getting scrutinized as a potential board statement; that goes for Jimmy, too. Our board members are all smart, well-respected people and I'd like to hear their opinions more often about everything, but I think that the fact of having to draft and present consensus positions to an often-critical community hampers them. I'm not sure if there's a good answer to this problem.
-- Phoebe