The fedora-board-list is a closed list used by the Fedora Board to discuss issues of a sensitive nature. Most corporate and governmental boards have a similar resource, sometimes called the "executive session." It's something we try to use as little as possible, because the decisions made in Fedora need to be as open and transparent as possible. After elections and other turnovers, the Board typically culls its membership list to remove non-active members and make sure that it does not turn into an "alternate FAB list," where discussions might be held in place of moving them into the public eye. We all want Fedora to maintain the absolute maximum of openness and transparency everywhere, all the time. After a previous election of Board members, the Board looked at the swelling fedora-board-list membership. They saw that the number of people on the list (A) made confidentiality a more difficult proposition, and (B) promoted longer discussions with the potential to turn away from the more public and open FAB list. The Board therefore voted[1] to enact a policy whereby only current Board members and specially appointed people should remain on fedora-board-list. For these reasons, and after making sure all the parties on both sides were in agreement, I've done this culling in accordance with Board policy. The current members of the list are the people listed on the wiki as current Board members[2], and John Poelstra by special appointment in his role as secretary. After the next Board election following Fedora 9, we'll revisit the membership list as needed. = = = [1] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2007-July/msg00214.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
_______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
