On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 11:17:22PM -0800, Barton C Massey wrote: > Voting for the 2010 Election of the X.Org Foundation Board > of Directors opens Friday 5 Feb 2010 at 0100 UTC, and closes > Thursday 18 Feb 2010 at 2300 UTC. All current Members of > the X.Org Foundation are eligible to vote in this election. > Members may vote by logging in to the web app at > https://members.x.org > > Four seats are open for two-year terms, and one additional > seat is open for a one-year term to finish the term vacated > by Daniel Stone's resignation. > > For the list of candidates and their personal and > contribution statements, please see > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/BoardOfDirectors/Elections/2010 > > Thank you for your support of X.Org. > > Bart Massey > Election Committee Chair > X.Org Foundation Board of Directors > [email protected]
My apologies for being this late with this, this all clashed with my DevRoom duties and talks at FOSDEM. I have another question. The X.org Foundation exists to best represent the interests of the X.org Foundation members, by being the legal entity responsible for the state of the Foundation. To a large extent, its responsibility is to manage the considerable amount of funds that the X.org foundation has gathered over the years, in the best interest of these X.org foundation members. (for those who wonder about the "best interest of the X.org foundation members", this translates to "in the best interest of the X.org community, but the organization can only officially care about those who signed up") This is what the bylaws state: "The Board shall keep minutes of its meetings in which shall be recorded all action taken by it, and at least a summary thereof shall be submitted to the Members at least annually." [1] The last time the members were informed about anything to this end was in Oktober 2006 [2]. For me, an Xorg foundation member who approved these bylaws, the only point for being a member of the X.org foundation is to have some insight into and, through the yearly elections, have a say over how the X.org funds are being used. And it seems that, without knowing how the X.org foundation funds are being used, there is little point in having an election. How can we decide who will best represent the X.org foundation members interests in the future, if we have absolutely no insight as to what has happened in the past? Is there any chance that this important information becomes available to the X.org Foundation members still? Thanks, Luc Verhaegen. [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/BylawReview?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=ProposedBylawsRevised20061029.pdf [2] http://www.x.org/wiki/BodMeetingSummaries _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
