Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January

[Andrew Muraco]

Chandler Carruth wrote:

> Lance Albertson wrote:
>
>> Yeah, maybe so :-)
>>
>> Reflecting on this more, I see that most of the council members are a
>> very important part of the active Gentoo development model (toolchain,
>> etc). They need to keep those roles active as much as possible, then
>> help on the council. I guess I view this person as a sole chairmen of
>> the board that just focuses on council type duties and roles. I think
>> the current council has lots of great people, but they're all busy with
>> their subprojects and can't take on a role like this. We really need a
>> single voice to bind everything together, but doesn't have total control
>> like Daniel did.
>>
>> Hopefully I'm making sense..
>
> As perhaps a good way of thinking of this, the common term used in
> commitees (as I have interacted with them in various beaurocratic
> situations) is a "non-voting chair". This person would organize,
> schedule, direct, communicate, and facilitate the work of the
> committee, to allow the voting members to more effectively handle the
> issues arising for the committee. The voting members need not take on
> much of a workload to vote and serve on the committee because most (if
> not all) of the time consuming tasks and aspects of the committee are
> handled by a non-voting chair. Simultaneously, the singular nature of
> the chair is less of a concern because they are non-voting. The lack
> of a vote checks their singular power, while still allowing them to
> very efficiently organize and direct information in and out of the
> committee. *shrug* I'm not entirely sure that I agree or disagree with
> this solution, but wanted to give an example of what (I think?) Lance
> is getting at here.

I'm not sure if this would apply, but in the US Government System, the 
supreme courts are basicly a committee (or council, which ever word you 
like better), the "leader" (Chief Justice) of the supreme court doesn't 
have any extra power, but has extra duties, and has senority over the 
other Justices. Perhaps a situation like that would the Gento Council, 
or maybe it should stay in the Justice System.

wkr,
Andrew
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