Re: [gentoo-nfp] Question for Trustee Candidates

[Matthew Thode]

On 20-07-18 04:40:34, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-07-17 at 19:50 -0500, Matthew Thode wrote:
> > On 20-07-17 21:41:30, Roy Bamford wrote:
> > > Team,
> > >
> > > The responses so far raise a further questions.
> > >
> > > The Foundation currently has 74 members, not all of whom can serve as trustees.
> > > The board consists of 5 members.
> > >
> > > It follows that the board must consist of about 7% of the membership.
> > > I'll go on to suggest that 7% is an unreasonably large proportion of the membership
> > > required to serve on the board of our own legal entity.
> > >
> > > As supporting evidence, I'll cite the lack of competition for seats on the board
> > > over the last 12 years.
> > >
> > > How do the candidates that favour maintaining our own legal entity intend to attract
> > > a) more members?
> > > b) members willing and able to serve as trustees?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Roy Bamford
> > > (Neddyseagoon) a member of
> > > elections
> > > gentoo-ops
> > > forum-mods
> > > arm64
> >
> > I would suggest an alternative, we could reduce down to 3 trustees.
> >
>
> Are you sure we won't end up with a little low bus factor?  Although
> I do realize there's no real difference between having 3 Trustees
> and having 3 active Trustees out of 5 (not saying this is right now,
> just theoretically).
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>

Ya, that is my main worry with reducing the trustee count.

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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire)