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

[andre999]

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.

-- 
André