[Request for Comments] Governance change for Fedora Project

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg
<greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Hey, I knew it was a good idea!
>
> (Got a link for when I learn to read?)

nvm, it was all in the first email in the thread.  I just didn't
understand that proposal to be substantially the same as my proposal.
I'll drill down on those slides.

--g

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