[Mageia-discuss] [LONG] yesterday meeting logs, and board election at fosdem

[Farfouille]

Le 12/01/2011 11:18, andre999 a écrit :
> 
> Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 01:05, Maarten Vanraes
>> <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Op woensdag 12 januari 2011 00:27:26 schreef Michael Scherer:
>>>> Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 20:31 +0100, Farfouille a écrit :
>>>>> Le 11/01/2011 13:54, Michael Scherer a écrit :
>>>>>> (lots of interesting things)
>>>>>
>>>>> Can people be part of both the board and the council (except the chair of
>>>>> course) ?
>>>>
>>>> That's a good question that I intentionally left unanswered because i
>>>> wanted to see if people read my mail :p
>>>>
>>>> No in fact, I do not have the answer, but I also ask it myself.
>>>>
>>>> I know that we specified that peoples could not be leader of 2 teams
>>>> ( for reason of workload, and to avoid bus error ), or something like
>>>> that, but I am not sure for the board and council.
>>>>
>>>> I think there will likely be people on both at least on the start, and
>>>> if I were to decide, I would not forbid it, but for the sake of
>>>> spreading work, and reducing risk ( in case someone must step down for
>>>> any reason ), it should be a best practice to not be on both.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe Romain can enlighten here ?
>>
>> No opinion. I'd leave this open and see how it goes if it happens. The
>> main issue I could see is too high a workload on a single head and not
>> being focused enough on important parts. But it need some experience
>> to see if it does occur to be an issue.
>>
>> By the way:
>>   - if someone was to step down from the Board (for any reason),
>> there's a provision allowing Board members to get a temporary
>> replacement - until next election;
>>   - if someone was to step down from the Council, it would be up to the
>> team to decide who goes there (temporarily, this could be the team
>> leader, waiting for an election).
>>
>>> I think since that association members come from council; that it's only
>>> logical that they don't step down from the council.
>>
>> Council is supposed to be renewed every year and you may (or not) be
>> renewed but you will be/stay a member of the association anyway.
>>
>>> and it could be that they are in board as well that same year. and since
>>> board is renewed anyway, personally i see no troubles here.
>>
>> Romain
> 
> For what it's worth, I like the proposed setup - including the 
> wait-and-see-if-problematic approach regarding serving on both the 
> Council and the Board.
> 
I asked the question because it came to my mind while reading Misc mail and I though 
that the point should be raised but I have no idea and the pragmatic 'wait-and-see' approach is an adequate answer to me.
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Farfouille