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Re: BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION

> > I have scheduled a board of directors election for Wednesday, January 8, 1997.
> > All current package developers will be allowed to vote. People who would like
> > to be nominated should make their names known to me. We can have some sort of
> > campaigning on debian-private before that time.
> >
> > 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 also disappointed to see Bruce go.  Though, as project leader,
he took a lot of heat of the Debian 1.2 release, I think he bore
the complaints and criticism well.  He may have made some mistakes,
but mistakes are only really bad if you fail to learn from them.

I hope Bruce will reconsider his decision and allow himself to
be included among the candidates for "Debian Project Leader".


> 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.

In a company (and if Debian becomes a company, this will be legally
true as well as a good policy), the board of directors has little
power beyond selecting the officers of the company (eg. President
and CEO).  It is those chosen officers who are responsible (and thus
have corresponding authority) for the dealings of the company.

A board of directors does not add anything to the decision making
process.
                                             
                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )
                                             
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