[Linux-aus] Proposal: two year overlapping terms, more council members

[Hugh Blemings]

Hi All,

On 12/12/2016 15:36, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> Every year so far:
>   -- Every major position has multiple credible candidates
>   -- Including general positions as well as office bearer positions
>
> If we are running the show with too few people involved, it's because
> the various powers that be have chosen not to leverage effort from the
> community.
 >
 > [...]

So I feel as President I should "wear" this one a bit.  To elaborate;

I don't think we've had a lot of folk coming forward, but I _think_ when 
they have we've done an ok job of making use of that.  Perfect track 
record, I doubt it, but probably ok.

What in hindsight I think I could perhaps have done more of, is actively 
ping the Community when Council could use a hand.  Yes there is an 
overhead in getting someone up to speed, but nothing insurmountable.

So to be explicit - if you'd like to help with "something" or you have 
an idea of a specific thing you'd like to do under the auspices of Linux 
Australia, please get in touch either with council as a whole 
council at linux.org.au or one of the office bearers of the day - 
president@  secretary at linux.org.au etc. :)

This doesn't even need to be super formal "Hey Hugh, I was wondering if 
I could help out with $IDEA" works :)

As to a larger Council, we'd talked about this at one point but (from 
memory) drawn the conclusion that we could just as readily get folk 
involved if/when they came forward.  As per above, maybe I/we could have 
been more proactive in soliciting this assistance.

As to the "understudy" concept - I think we more or less do this already 
in so far as we've a reasonable approach, if informal, of people coming 
on to Council after having been involved generally in the community or 
moving from an OCM role into one of the specific council roles (I went 
OCM > VP > year off > Prez for example)

While it doesn't often come up, there is a reasonable if again informal 
norm of Office Bearers of the day consulting with their predecessors 
both during the actual handover but also throughout the year when knotty 
things pop up.

Thanks all for the largely thoughtful conversation around this and to 
Paul for kicking the thread off :)

Cheers,
Hugh