On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 02:19:21PM -0500, inode0 wrote: > > are unclear where to go for what. If you've got some suggestions for making > > the delineation sharp, I think that would really help. > I would call what we have now and what I would like to retain a > governance board and I would call the new body a leadership council. Okay, but see below... > > This comes back to sounding like "court" to me, although maybe there's > > something loaded in that term that doesn't sit right. > It bothers me because courts conjure up criminal behavior and > punishments and such. We often don't even have strong advocacy > involved. We are asked questions where sometimes the people asking Okay, that's fair enough. I certainly didn't mean to imply that. > might not have thought it through entirely themselves but just want > something clarified before investing a lot of their energy going down > an alley. In this role I see the board up to now as one giving > guidance when asked (and anyone could ask including board members). > Since the board has never had any ability to enforce its guidance it > really is just guidance that hopefully more often than not folks pay > attention to. This last thing seems at odds with the concept of "governance", at least as Greg defined it earlier in the thread (and which seems a reasonable enough definition to work with; others might include an even stronger degree of control). If the board just provides guidance, it doesn't really sound like a _governing_ board -- more like an advisory board. (Hmmm; maybe I shouldn't have renamed this mailing list....) -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
