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Re: BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION

On Mon, 02 Dec 1996 14:56:29 EST Dale Scheetz (dwarf@polaris.net) 
wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> 
> > I will not be running for the board, and after the election, I will be
> > stepping down as project leader. The board of directors can choose a new
> > project leader.
> > 
> I am more than a little disappointed that you are taking this position. I,
> for one, have been VERY satisfied with your responsible leadership and
> strongly feel that the project will be severely damaged by your leaving
> this post.
> I am not strongly opposed to the "board of directors" idea, however, it
> strikes me as another layer of decision avoidance that we don't need. It
> seems to me that the only way we have ever gotten a release out has been
> by the decisions directed by one central leader. Many of the poor
> decisions made by corporations are not so much the result of corporate
> greed as they are the result of organizational stupidity. We don't need to
> add more committees to the organization.

I tend to agree with Dale on this. What I like in Debian is the idea that everyone cooperates, not obeys. Our project leader is just here to make decisions when decisions have to be made. But this BoD make me feel like belonging to a corporation, hence destructing this cooperation thing.

Furthermore, I don't think that the BoD will solve any of the problems we've encountered. I can understand Bruce who must have had a lot of pression on the last controversial decision (x11). Maybe he's fed up with taking all this responsabilities alone.
I think there's been a problem when Bruce tried to deleguate some of his (or the project if you prefer) reponsabilities to some other persons. Finally the decision was his. Why ? Maybe because some people didn't recognize the delegated authority ? The BoD won't change anything on this.

One could argue that because the BoD is elected, it could give some legimity to its members. I don't think it will. I'm afraid that too much politics will kill the project.

I think the very small organizational overhead we've got now is largely enough. As you might have guessed, I'm not enthusiastic about this BoD. Maybe we should organize a meta-vote on wether or not we want a BoD ?

And finally, I think that Bruce has done an outstanding job. Please reconsider your decision.

Phil.



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