On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:09 -0400, Joc wrote:
Okay, well the main thing is it would be nice to have some automatic means of injecting fresh blood into the board from year to year. Also, if there's some polite way to remove inactive board members (voting them off seems like it could be impolite and messy), that may help make room for new people.
A system that my computer club have used for over 20 years with great success is to have a board of directors (BOD) made of up to 9 positions, and every year we ask our members who would like to join the BOD, if 9 or less give their name then they become automatically the board for the next year, otherwise we run an election and whoever gets the most votes become a director.
I think the problem we have here is determining who the electorate is. It's much easier to register a bunch of e-mail addresses to a mailing list than bring bodies to a computer club (though, cloning is getting better).
I'm okay with the term limits. Perhaps that's how we write it down. Then we apply a 'custom' which is that no one moves to have someone else renewed. You have to do it yourself and 'justify' your renewal in your motion. At least then you have to publish a reason.
--Ted