[Foundation-l] Board restructuring and community

[Samuel Klein]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Personally I think that 4 experts is a big number for the board.
> Experts are consultants not board members!!!
>
> Probably 2 experts is a number sufficient to cover particular skills
> but the board it's the *unique* link between the communities and the
> management, IMHO this new configuration it's a suicide of the board.
>
> Surely the 2 chapters members in the board must replace the experts
> seats and not the community's seats.
>

You are less wordy than I am...  My thoughts exactly.

And I agree with senpai that 'community seats' should continue to mean
'chosen directly by the community'.  There are many other ways to choose
community members by intermediate representatives...

SJ


 On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  What astonishes me is the lack of reaction on the part of chapters.
> >  I fully expected a backslash from the community, though I thought it
> >  would be on a different substance somehow.
> >  However, I expected the chapter members to react, if only to share
> >  interjections such as "how are we going to decide on the representants
> >  ???". The only reaction I saw was the very negative feedback from
> >  Lodewijk. I am *genuinely and honestly" puzzled by the near absence of
> >  reaction. I do not know what to think of it.
> >
>
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