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On 20-07-17 21:41:30, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> Team, |
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> The responses so far raise a further questions. |
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> The Foundation currently has 74 members, not all of whom can serve as trustees. |
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> The board consists of 5 members. |
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> It follows that the board must consist of about 7% of the membership. |
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> I'll go on to suggest that 7% is an unreasonably large proportion of the membership |
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> required to serve on the board of our own legal entity. |
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> As supporting evidence, I'll cite the lack of competition for seats on the board |
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> over the last 12 years. |
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> How do the candidates that favour maintaining our own legal entity intend to attract |
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> a) more members? |
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> b) members willing and able to serve as trustees? |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Roy Bamford |
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> (Neddyseagoon) a member of |
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> elections |
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> gentoo-ops |
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> forum-mods |
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> arm64 |
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I would suggest an alternative, we could reduce down to 3 trustees. |
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Attracting members is hard, especially those that want to particiate. |
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I'd suggest sending an email to the dev mailing list, maybe once a year |
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(in May, before the roll call before the election). The email would |
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specify why one should join (and why one should not join). |
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Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |
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