On 2019-12-06 06:53:31 -0600 (-0600), Sean McGinnis wrote: [...]
The later phrasing of "will be twelve months" is the tricky part here, since that is what we ended up publishing. I don't recall it being our intent to have a strict 12 month term.
Yep, that's really the present challenge. The TC needs to have something in the charter which declares a longer (or maybe also shorter) possible term length. Otherwise they get the default "12 months" from the bylaws. They *can* work with the board to change that part of the bylaws more easily now, it no longer needs scheduling a vote of the OSF members and nail-biting over getting sufficient voter turnout at least, but it does still mean board meetings and similar lengthy process (compared to bylaws changes which the TC can in theory propose and approve within a week or so if they're quick to register their votes on it). So anyway, there's the rub, if the TC can fix this before March then the members elected in 2020 Q1 will not be subject to the same scheduling complications when their terms expire in 2021 Q1, but we're still going to have to deal with this problem through both 2020 elections I suspect. -- Jeremy Stanley