That’s not a bad plan Zane, but are you still thinking separate or the unified group?
Amy
On Feb 25, 2020, at 7:42 PM, Zane Bitter zbitter@redhat.com wrote:
On 25/02/20 5:23 am, Thierry Carrez wrote:
1- No bylaws change As bylaws changes take a lot of time and energy, the simplest approach would be to merge the TC and UC without changing the bylaws at all. The single body (called TC) would incorporate the AUC criteria by adding all AUC members as extra-ATC. It would tackle all aspects of our community. To respect the letter of the bylaws, the TC would formally designate 5 of its members to be the 'UC' and those would select a 'UC chair'. But all tasks would be handled together.
I think there's an even simpler approach. Any member of the foundation can nominate themselves as a UC member. In the past we've just kept extending the deadline until someone steps up. So the *simplest* thing to do is:
- Run the election process as usual. If any users want to step up they are welcome to, and on past performance very likely to be acclaimed without an election.
- If the deadline passes, the TC commits to finding enough warm bodies who are foundation members to fill any remaining seats, including from among its own members if necessary.
- The additional volunteers are acclaimed, and all members of the UC elect a chair.
- We accept that to the extent that the UC has duties to perform and ambassadors to help, this will largely remain un-done.
This eliminates the issue of actual users needing to submit themselves to an election of all ATCs + AUCs in order to get a seat (which tbh seems questionable under the bylaws, since not all ATCs are AUCs).
- ZB