[Foundation-l] A Board member's perspective

[Yann Forget]

Hello,

2010/5/9 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
> Stu,
>
> Thank you for telling us your views. You have admitted that the way
> this was dealt with was "messy". That such an approach would be messy
> should have been obvious to everyone involved, so do you think it
> would have been better to take a less messy approach? Perhaps the
> Board could have issued a statement saying that the current situation
> was unacceptable, explaining why, and that they would have to
> intervene to fix it if the community didn't sort it out by a certain
> deadline.
>
> Unfortunately, this looks to me like the board couldn't really agree
> on what to do so made a vague enough statement that those board
> members that didn't feel it was right to go in a delete everything
> wouldn't oppose it but that Jimmy could claim supported his view and
> legitimised him doing whatever the hell he pleased. The board needs to
> be stronger - when Jimmy does things like this it reflects badly on
> all of you, so you need to keep him under control. If you can't agree
> on what to do, you need to either defer to the community or come up
> with a genuine compromise rather than political manoeuvring to avoid
> being responsible for what happens. Also, it would help us choose
> board members if you were more public about your disagreements. You
> don't have to all present a united front behind Jimmy.

+1
I can't express my view more clearly.

Yann