Previously Nils Lohner wrote: > - they should take care of most of the day to day operation of SPI > [this takes the workload off the BOD] Basically they're delegates of the BOD, right? > - their rights and responsibilities should be completely described in > their charter True. We should do that for Debian as well, but I'm not in a hurry there since Debian already works fine. > - the BOD should be able to issue charters (i.e. create committees) > [I'm thinking that if the consensus is that a new committee is needed, > the BOD can issue a charter. The membership should definitely have some > input here though. how? By helping write the charter.] Help writing the chapter and of course being able to revoke the creation of a new committee via a vote. > QUESTIONS: > ---------- > - how are leaders appointed? I'd say by the BOD, possibly the membership. Have people from the membership volunteer and let the BOD make the final choice I think. > - how are members appointed? BOD? Leader? Membership? Another quite common option is to select a leader and let him choose the rest of the committee if you're forming a new committee. If a current leader is replace a new leader is chosen by the BOD and the current committee, with advise from the leaving leader. > - what do we do if a committee is no longer necessary? disband it. How? > BOD vote? I think a committee should have to disband itself. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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