On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:18:29PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg > <greg.dekoenigsberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg > > <greg.dekoenigsberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg > >>>> <greg.dekoenigsberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > Perhaps it's worth considering that structure again. An executive > >>>> > board that consists of the various committee heads. Docs team, > >>>> > Ambassadors team, FESCO, Web team, etc., all gathering together weekly > >>>> > to discuss the issues within their teams. Election no longer happens > >>>> > at the Board level, but at the committee level, where most of the work > >>>> > gets done, and where the constituents are closer to the leadership. > >>>> > >>>> The corollary to this proposal: a significant number of these > >>>> committee heads would need to be *actually elected*, and not appointed > >>>> by fiat. Perhaps FESCO would be exempted. Red Hat would need to be > >>>> comfortable with such a structure, of course. > >>> > >>> I think you should go back and read the content from the meeting. The > >>> proposal isn't markedly different from this suggestion, except that it > >>> doesn't require that each and every team have a member in the council, > >>> but rather that groups of teams might be combined to provide a member. > >>> And it doesn't dictate that the FPL appoint blindly, but rather that > >>> these groups could select a member. I feel that consensus would be a > >>> better method than election, but neither way is ruled out. > >> > >> Hey, I knew it was a good idea! > >> > >> (Got a link for when I learn to read?) > > > > nvm, it was all in the first email in the thread. I just didn't > > understand that proposal to be substantially the same as my proposal. > > I'll drill down on those slides. > > Yep. +1. "There's a ghost that haunts this town Just ask anyone you see He drags his chain around And no spell can set him free And he looks a lot like me And if you ask him why he's bound He'll just say he lost the key There's a ghost that haunts this town..." :-) -- 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/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
