On 10:20 Sat 07 Feb , Roy Bamford wrote: > There is no need for the secretary to be a member of the council as > long as the person in that role takes no part in the councils decision > making process. > > The council could recruit a secretary from outside of themselves, or > even outside of gentoo. An external recruit would need to become a > gentoo staff member to be really useful, so they could have commit > access to coucil web space. > > The Foundation has seen all that happen. This option works for me. In fact it's probably better that a person is relatively less involved, since they'd hopefully be able to write a bit more objectively. Also council members aren't distracted during the meeting with taking notes. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com