From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZvhE-0003eM-Cl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:47:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EE1EE01E0; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:47:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8697E0207 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:46:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i28so1353294wxd.10 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.22.7 with SMTP id 7mr6992531wxv.11.1220222818971; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.40.7 with HTTP; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:46:58 -0700 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: "Chrissy Fullam" Subject: [gentoo-council] Re: [gentoo-nfp] Foundation by laws: new Article V Cc: gentoo-nfp , gentoo-council In-Reply-To: <02a001c90ba7$8cc981f0$a65c85d0$@org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <02a001c90ba7$8cc981f0$a65c85d0$@org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0f894cff9ae89be7 X-Archives-Salt: 8d2a0c2e-dfbf-45cd-ad88-c4353f0fb54b X-Archives-Hash: 55d000446d8d43858c04680fdca65fab On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Chrissy Fullam wrote: > Refer to bylaws that were approved in today's Trustee meeting: > > http://dev.gentoo.org/~neddyseagoon/docs/FoundationBylawsProposed_7.xml > > > > I cannot understand why a person cannot be on the Council and on the > Trustees? We had someone do so in the past and no conflicts or issues arose. > What is the reasoning that a person cannot serve on the technical team and > the legal team? a) Should the member go missing we would be down 1 position in both bodies, a subcase of Single Point of Failure. b) I worry about time constraints with one person being on two important bodies in a volunteer organization eg; fulfilling both roles properly. c) Limitations of Power. This bylaw limits the damage done by one person. It is SOXish; it takes two to tango; two people to be malicious in some use cases. d) Past performance does not indicate future returns. Just because we have not had troubles in the past with this does not mean we will not have trouble with it in the future. > > Please note: that I do not see validity in the statement 'what if Council > asks for money and dual role person on the Trustee approves it' as I think > that person would hold the same opinion regardless of being on both teams > unless we are saying that we cannot trust our Council people to not make > decisions in the best interest of Gentoo. I trust the council to make the best *technical* decisions for Gentoo; that is why I voted for the people I did. That has nothing to do with making legal/funding decisions as the council has no say in those matters. Your use case is invalid in the general case as funding requests of any kind require majority approval by the board of trustees per: http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/requesting-funds.xml More specific use cases that may or may not be illegal. I am Treasurer and on Council; I get a motion in council approved by a slim margin. I skip the approval process from the rest of the board and just cut a check because I'm Treasurer. Legal? Maybe...it is hard to say how binding the xml on that document is. I am a Trustee and on the Council; I get a motion in council approved by a slim margin and because I am trustee I only need N -1 / 2 votes (a majority of all trustees that are not me) to pass my motion. In the case of an odd number of trustees this means I can pass motions with 1 less vote than other motions which is an advantage. Legal? Yes if the bylaw is repealed ;) Most of these specific use cases can be removed by adding a bylaw stating that a trustee that is also a council member must recuse himself in decisions in both bodies that affect each other. So if I vote in council on a motion that requires funding; I cannot vote in the trustee vote to approve it; this negates my 1 vote advantage. Recusal enables said person to participate in both bodies in what I'll term 'a majority' of decisions. -Alec > > > > Kind regards, > Christina Fullam > Gentoo Developer Relations Lead | Gentoo Public Relations