[Foundation-l] thoughts on leakages
Florence Devouard
Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 12 18:27:40 UTC 2008
Dan Rosenthal wrote:
> No, I'm not at all suggesting any committee be formed to police the
> board. What I'm saying is that it's impossible for the board to police
> themselves, so the community as a whole needs to do so, by having
> impeachment power. The exact same way that the entire community has
> the ability to elect members to the board, the entire community should
> have the power to remove members from the board. And by that, I do NOT
> mean waiting until the term is up and then not voting for them.
> Without external enforcement power, in this case a potentially angry
> community, there is no incentive for the board to remain transparent.
>
> -Dan
I dunno about others.
But I do not need the incentive of knowing someone can remove me, to try
to be transparent. That's... an internal caracteristic.
ant
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