[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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