[Members] Re: Member/Board Interactivity

[Barton C Massey]

In the workflow I proposed, there are two key elements that
address your concerns:

  * A working group ("subcommittee" was a horrible name, and
    I retract it with apologies) will be created only in
    response to concerns brought before the Board by the
    community.  No WGs for WG's sake.

  * Once created, a WG will operate autonomously.  It
    involves the Board as a whole again only at the end,
    if/when it advances a proposal involving a request for
    resources.

Yes, we have to be careful about how we set a structure up.
But I think we do need a clear mechanism for, as you say,
"delegating away that which is not sensible to keep on the
Board" while still keeping control as a Board over the
expenditure of X.org resources.

	Bart

In message <20061024132341.GG5111 at fooishbar.org> you wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:13:31AM -0400, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > 	Would you set up a sub/committee system with mixed board/member
> > membership, or an alternative? Or would you have the board do a
> > different planning process to decide how to structure for this
> > interaction?
> 
> Setting up subcommittees for the sake of setting up subcommittees?  No.
> 
> If it would be valuable, then yes.  But in general, I think we can do a
> much better job by realising that the board is not the only entity on
> the planet which can/should perform given tasks, and delegate away what
> is not sensible to keep on the board (I strongly agree with Egbert on
> this point).
> 
> But if there are any particular (sub)committees that can be established,
> I'm all ears.
> 
> We can't fix our board without a pretty big cultural change.  Having
> more people talk at the board won't achieve that on its own.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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