On Thu, 2021-06-17 at 12:16 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
I'd be interested to know what other people's opinions are as well a if I'm misremembering the "purpose" of the committee.
I think you have the right remembrance of the core intentions of the committee;
Although with caveats. The leadership functionality of the project has deprecated over time as people have left the project, removing capabilities and authority. It may have been possible to get the community together to make an authoritative pitch before, but now we can't even make a definitive call on who is in and not in the community enough to perform the most basic of committee functions; namely spending money and electing new members to the committee. Both functions are pending in our inbox and we are not really meeting either of these tasks with the required capability.
The proposal seeks to address this.
Hopefully we'll be able to import the discussions we've had about community membership and have a vote on what that is too, sooner rather than later. Clearing that administrative process up will make returning to the core rubber-stamping operation much easier, and I hope we can get to that point again this year.
Best Regards, Martin Owens