[Linux-aus] Converting Linux Australia's "Committee" to a "Board"

[Brenda Aynsley]

Stewart Smith wrote:

> the workload of the treasurer is
>  _                      
> | |__  _   _  __ _  ___ 
> | '_ \| | | |/ _` |/ _ \
> | | | | |_| | (_| |  __/
> |_| |_|\__,_|\__, |\___|
>              |___/      
> 
> and it has a tendancy across volunteers to wear people out and have them
> running for the hills at the end of the time, or do a really half-arsed
> job and leave some poor sod to try and clean up the mess (like having to
> wind up the organisation because it discovers it's bankrupt).
> 
> Solving this problem is probably THE most important thing for an
> organisation to achieve to be sustainable.... we've probably solved it
> 20%.
> 

if the job is so ENORMOUS, change the job parameters!

Here's a typical description of the role of a treasurer

http://dawn.thot.net/board_treasurer.html

How different to this is the role of linuxaus' treasurer?

cheers
brenda
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