[Request for Comments] Governance change for Fedora Project

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg
> <greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps it's worth considering that structure again. An executive
> > board that consists of the various committee heads. Docs team,
> > Ambassadors team, FESCO, Web team, etc., all gathering together weekly
> > to discuss the issues within their teams.  Election no longer happens
> > at the Board level, but at the committee level, where most of the work
> > gets done, and where the constituents are closer to the leadership.
> 
> The corollary to this proposal: a significant number of these
> committee heads would need to be *actually elected*, and not appointed
> by fiat. Perhaps FESCO would be exempted.  Red Hat would need to be
> comfortable with such a structure, of course.

I think you should go back and read the content from the meeting.  The
proposal isn't markedly different from this suggestion, except that it
doesn't require that each and every team have a member in the council,
but rather that groups of teams might be combined to provide a member.
And it doesn't dictate that the FPL appoint blindly, but rather that
these groups could select a member.  I feel that consensus would be a
better method than election, but neither way is ruled out.

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