Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Leadership Structure

[Alistair Bush]

Firstly I just want to get my idea's in here.

Basically I like things as they are but would like to strengthen areas 
where I perceive the rules to be attackable. Most of these idea's do 
come from the system I parliament within my country (NZ) which is a 
Constitutional Monachy ( without a formal Constitution ).

Now, all I suggest we do is amend our rules to be this.

1) The Foundation call's the Council elections, Council call's for 
Foundation elections.
2) At any time duing a Councils term the Council can ask the Foundation 
to call elections for Council, at which time the Foundation _must_ do so.
3) Foundation can dismiss Council and call elections[1]
4) Council can dismiss "Foundation" (or more correctly all its members) 
and call elections[1].
5) A Council or Foundation can't be dismissed within the first _insert 
time period here_.

[1] elections being within 30 days.

Now it would be my hope that this framework would be more Convention 
than a set of rules to be followed.  For instance I wouldn't expect the 
Foundation members to have to meet and decide whether to accept a 
request by Council for new elections.  But on the other hand it would 
stop any abuses of council ( eg all developers must be blonde with blue 
eyes ) and allow council to replace a slacking Foundation.

Also at no point would this stop the development community from 
re-electing the Council/Foundation as it stood.  If there was a 
situation where the Council was dismissed only to be re-elected "with a 
strong majority" then you could assume the Foundation should be worried.

I also hope that by keeping this short ppl will agree on principal with 
this first, before fleshing out any problem/missing area's.

Alistair
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