[Foundation-l] Provisional Volunteer Council - proposal sent to the Board

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to say that I accepted Lodewijk's document as a paper about
>  which PC will talk about. So, I don't think that it is the final
>  document about VC. If the formulation of Lodewijk's proposal has some
>  legal implications, then we should reformulate it. There is no need to
>  think about legal responsibilities of the body which is generally a
>  work group.

This is my opinion on the matter. Instead of arguing about this or
that detail now, let's set up the provisional council and let them get
to work finalizing the details. In short, it doesnt matter what the VC
is speculated to do/be now, because the PVC will probably change all
that. The PVC will, I hope, decide many of the specifics about th VC,
write up an acceptable and specific proposal about it, and submit that
proposal to the board.

I will say, as many others have already said, that it's good that we
start to think about some of the important questions, such as legal
questions, now. that way the PVC can make better decisions about the
VC, and can focus it's attention in productive directions. However,
arguing about all sorts of issues which are not yet pertinent here and
now is not productive.

Right now we need to set up a good PVC (whether the list that's been
given is "good" or not is certainly up for debate), and start
proposing some challenges that the PVC will have to deal with. Once
the PVC has been created, we can start talking about issues that
concern the VC more actively.

--Andrew Whitworth