[Foundation-l] Expert board members - a suggestion

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/27 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Thomas Dalton<thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think part of the problem is that there were some odd ideas about
>> how the Advisory Board would work. For example, it has a chair. I
>> can't work out why. Why would the advisory board ever meet as a group?
>> Being an expert is only of use if you are an expert in the subject
>> being discussed. Individual members of the advisory board should be
> [snip]
>
> Presumably a chair can track membership and expertise and handle
> routing messages to the relevant parties, participate with recruiting,
> and otherwise act as an impedance match between the board proper and
> the advisory board.  I'm not sure if that was what was envisioned, or
> if chair is the best name for it, but I think that it's a reasonable
> alternative to the sort of flat structure that you're describing.

I guess that is somewhere being a chair and a secretary. The job title
isn't important, as long as the role is clearly defined.