Appointment of Board Members.

[Máirín Duffy]

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 20:43 -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
> Back when I was responsible for filling the appointed seats, I saw it in 
> a similar way:
> 
> (1) A check that can help make sure that the board is "balanced", though 
> the manner in which different people define that term could be its own 
> thread.
> 
> (2) An opportunity to be a bit strategic, which history has shown may or 
> may not work out.  Red Hat acquired JBoss during my tenure as FPL and I 
> thought it would be a good idea to appoint someone from JBoss who worked 
> on community issues to the board.  Several people who had leadership 
> roles within Red Hat engineering (but who were not Fedora-first in their 
> job description) were offered an opportunity to be appointed to the 
> Board, as an attempt to build some different and less-obvious 
> connections between Fedora's leadership and Red Hat's engineers.  This 
> doesn't apply only to Red Hatters, either.  There's also an opportunity 
> to say (for any person in the world) "The FPL thinks this person's voice 
> would be valuable on the Board, and the FPL wants to guarantee that it 
> can happen."
> 
> (3) An opportunity to give people a chance to be directly accountable 
> for the overall Fedora Project, which is a combination of strategic 
> discussions, a lot of mediation and compromise, and a chance to 
> participate in Fedora differently than what their "standard" volunteer 
> experience had been to that point.

Could the Board as a body appoint the appoined seats rather than just
the FPL? Then I think these 3 points would still hold true?

Just an idea,
~m