On 10:20 Sat 07 Feb     , Roy Bamford wrote:
> There is no need for the secretary to be a member of the council as 
> long as the person in that role takes no part in the councils decision 
> making process.
> 
> The council could recruit a secretary from outside of themselves, or 
> even outside of gentoo. An external recruit would need to become a 
> gentoo staff member to be really useful, so they could have commit 
> access to coucil web space.
> 
> The Foundation has seen all that happen.

This option works for me. In fact it's probably better that a person is 
relatively less involved, since they'd hopefully be able to write a bit 
more objectively. Also council members aren't distracted during the 
meeting with taking notes.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com