Re: [gentoo-nfp] New Trustees - My Resignation

[Grant Goodyear]

Stuart Herbert wrote: [Mon Oct 23 2006, 07:16:24AM CDT]
> On 10/23/06, Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@×××××.com> wrote:
> >Anyone know where I can find a copy of the Foundation's by-laws, to
> >see what it says about this situation?
>
> Never mind, I found them [1].  Section 5.7 says that the remaining
> Trustees can vote in a replacement for Seemant.  It doesn't require us
> to re-open voting with the membership.

*Sigh*  Unfortunately, the bylaws have yet to be approved (mainly
because the quorum requirements would kill us).  Thus, there is no
well-defined path.  The options are:

(1) Follow the bylaws, and the remaining trustees will pick a
    replacement.
(2) Bump up the largest vote recipient who didn't make the cut (r103).
(3) Or re-open nominations

Personally, I'm least fond of option 3, since I'd really like us to get
to work.

> Grant - as you're now the senior Trustee, can we rely on you to
> organise a Trustees meeting to discuss this, and hopefully vote in a
> successor for Seemant?

We now have #gentoo-trustees open for business.  I'd prefer to keep it
open as much as possible, just like #gentoo-council is available for
people to drop in and raise council issues.  In any event, I'm likely to
be available only sporadically, but I'll read up whatever is said, so
consider a meeting hereby called.

(Incidentally, I'd also like to see us kill the gentoo-trustees@g.o
list.  We already have the gentoo-nfp@g.o list for business that doesn't
have to be kept private, and -nfp tends to be quite low-noise.  For
stuff that we have to keep private, we're more likely to use the 
trustees@g.o alias than the mailing list, anyway, although I'd like to
see that kept to an absolute minimum.)

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