Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:
On 12/22/07, Florence Devouard anthere@anthere.org wrote:
Dear community
The board recently passed a resolution, which you will find below
In the aftermath of the resignation of Michael Davis (effective october 31th, 2007) and Erik Moëller (effective december 15th, 2007), the board confirms its will to replace the two former board members, as well as its committment to expand the number of members on the board of directors at the earliest convenience, up to a number of 11 members maximum. Due to its commitment to involve members from the community, at least half of the new members will be appointed for a term ending at the next board elections, in june 2008.
Florence
I think I am bound to say, if I understand the import of this resolution correctly, that this decision is a very poor show indeed.
Am I to really understand that the new seats which are "community seats" will be initially filled by appointment? That is, not only will Eriks seat which is temporally vacant because of his resignation be filled pro tem by appointment, but the board will make a "designated incumbent" decision on the other new "community seats" too, even though there is no existing _vacancy_ to those seats.
Some may think that the only problem here is that those people will merely be "confirmed" by the community, not chosen by it, but that is hardly the only problem with this fashion of working.
It would not be unreasonable to assume in light of current goings on that accepting such an appointment would be somewhat akin to accepting a poisoned chalice, or a kiss of death.
Being appointed by the current board, would mean that it may be that the vote up or vote down of these new board members would take some degree of being a vote on the current pre-existing board and its legitimacy, and not merely on the persons of the appointed people themselves. That would be a very unfortunate pass to see ourselves at, and I would like to give the community more credit than that, but it is not something I find entirely improbable.
-- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
To be fair, I read your email 4 times and did not understand what you meant :-( Can you rephrase in a clearer fashion ?
Ant