[Ambassadors] Runoff election for Board seat has begun.

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On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:49 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"
<johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/13/2012 04:24 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> I can see his point with FESCo, actually.  But I don't know that the
>> changes proposed here would "fix" it.
>
> The only way to find out is to implement it and measure the outcome then
> revisit the proposal after at least what three release cycles?
>
> We have a "fail safe" if there wont be enough nominees for any governing
> body elections and that is the FPL can fill the seats and those can be
> filled in with anyone including individuals that either are with the same
> company ( if we would implement the corporate restriction proposal ) or if
> an individual has reached the limit on how many terms he can sit within a
> given governing body ( limit number of terms/consecutive terms proposal ) or
> if it's an individual that is currently sitting in a governing body  ( limit
> individual to being only able to serve in a single governing body at a time
> proposal ).
>
> In essence whomever the FPL appoints supersedes any election rules we might
> have put in place should the need for him to arise to start appointing
> people in the first place.

Wanting to give such a broad new power to the FPL seems utterly bizarre to me.

How about this instead? Find active packagers to run for seats on
FESCo, they do get elected when they run.

John