Hi all!

"Peter Crowther" Peter@ozzard.org wrote:

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From: Cees De Groot All: please spout your dissatisfaction with the elections here.

Speaking entirely personally here, rather than as an election team member...

1. The election process was rushed at the end.

Indeed it was, and we can debate if that was bad or good - but we would have stepped down as planned in any case, and postponing the vote could have put us in a vacuum which might have been even worse. But I dunno.

2. Candidates were very reticent to come forward with their views.

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Agreed. I'd like the retired members to form a sort of advisory council, chiming in whenever asked or whenever they feel it's necessary. How exactly this will take shape, we'll need to see (for starters, the new emeritii need to accept the position ;-))

Co-opting useful people onto committees has a long and distinguished history. If it is done for the SqF board, then in my view:

• The people should be fully engaged with the board at all times, not a

parallel board;

• The board discussions should be open, to avoid any suggestion of

favour, nepotism and so on;

• The co-opted people should not have voting rights for the same reason.

There were some unpleasant scenes at a standards body a couple of years ago when invited experts were given votes on a working group and forced through a major change to a standard.

I was actually just envisioning a simple mailinglist where we "collect" the former board members which the current board can use to get advice or simply to get answers about things in the past or whatever. The former board members were not meant to have *any* other access whatsoever compared to any "regular" member of squeak-dev.

regards, Göran