[Foundation-l] Board members positions toward Jimmy's last action

[phoebe ayers]

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Milos Rancic <millosh at 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