Elected/Appointed Board

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 22:24 -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jon Stanley wrote:
> 
> > There however is, and should be, a requirement that the chair be 
> > employed by Red Hat (and have veto power).  This is an emergency 
> > override, like Rahul said, the plane is crashing and calling 
> > 'Mayday!'.  Not that I think that it ever has been nor ever will be 
> > utilized, it's something that's important to have in the back pocket. 
> > As a real world analogy, when I go bicycling, I wear a helmet.  I 
> > really hope it never will be necessary, but you get piece of mind from 
> > knowing that it's there in case you need it.
> 
> If I did back far enough into the archives, back when we first announced 
> the Board in April 2006, I remember saying something like "even though I 
> have veto power as the FPL, if I ever have to use it, then it means that 
> there has already been a colossal failure at some earlier point in our 
> processes".

+2.  It's an excellent statement on the quality of our Board members
(historically and currently) and the strength of our community that
neither of us can imagine actually having to confront that situation.

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