[Request for Comments] Governance change for Fedora Project

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 01:18:29PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg
> <greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yep. +1.

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