[Linux-aus] With elections coming up soon I thought I'd post a few ideas

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 08:39, Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org> wrote:
> Actually, Janet is right, most of the interesting stuff LA does is being
> done by sub-cttes and the sub-ctte model is supposed to mean that the org
> is ever scalable and reflective of what the community is interested in and
> what needs to be done without burning out a small number of people (aka the
> main ctte).

Great!

> I think yearly elections, but with an expectation of named seats to take on
> more than one year is a good idea, so we continue to have new blood, and
> between the community expectation and the sub-cttes, there are enough
> checks and balances to ensure continuity of the organisation.

That sounds like the best solution to me. For instance, named seats could have 
two-year terms, with other seats having one-year terms.


On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 08:45, James Purser <purserj at k-sit.com> wrote:
> > I think yearly elections, but with an expectation of named seats to take
> > on more than one year is a good idea, so we continue to have new blood,
> > and between the community expectation and the sub-cttes, there are enough
> > checks and balances to ensure continuity of the organisation.
>
> And of course, if we keep things open and transparent, the members are
> always going to be able to see when futz ups happen and pull the
> committee into line.

Openness and transparency are by far the most important elements of any 
system. I don't think many of us would be supporting free software 
otherwise :)

We should be consistent in everything we do and espouse. Free software has 
been successful because of its openness and transparency. Our method of 
governance should be similar.


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