On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 02:41 +0800, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 02:08, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > > What there is not, that I can see, is a way for the general membership > > to remove the board, or a particular member of the board, beyond the > > annual elections. > > > > Consider the following situation: > > > > The ESC makes a decision regarding the code that the BOD disagrees with > > and exercises their rights under the ByLaws to place the ESC under > > administration. Telling the ESC to either conform to the board's wishes > > or to disband and allow the BOD to appoint a new ESC. > > > >... > > > > There should be a way for the membership, which through their vote is > > after all the source of authority exercised by the BOD, to step in and > > remove the board. > > > > Firstly - this would be IMO an extraordinary circumstance of course, and > > whatever mechanism one would put in place _must_ present a rather high > > hurdle in order to trigger application. > > > > Without offering any specific details on mechanics for the moment, what > > I'm thinking of is a way for the general membership to call for an early > > election of the board in such an extraordinary situation. > > i don't think I'd want a mechanism to go as far as discharging the > BoD,
Hello David, > but maybe there could be a mechanism by which community members > could call for a ballot to be cast on a motion put forward by > concerned activists (kind of like organizing a petition)? This > mechanism would then provisionally block implementation of the > contentious decision until the vote has been held. The outcome of the > vote would be binding. Actually I would not be in favor of this approach. I would not want to go down a path of general membership binding initiatives, the BOD, IMO, is the body to make decisions in all normal circumstances. So, this would be a highly circumscribed process with only one of two possible outcomes: There is an early election of board members or there is not. Does that help to clarify my thinking here? Thanks Drew -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
