<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 1 Feb 2009, at 08:42, Mark Kretschmann wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Option: Lydia Pintscher<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If anyone would like to append a name to this list, you have until tomorrow<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to do so. I'll start the vote tomorrow night or so. The vote will last 1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">week (unless someone would like it longer?).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">cheers,<br></blockquote><br>09:24 < markey> uhm guys, the whole voting stuff<br>09:24 < markey> don't we first need candidates?<br>09:24 < markey> who declare what they actually want to do?<br>09:24 < markey> I thought that's a prerequesite for voting anyone<br>09:24 < markey> e.g. who wants to become Treasurer?<br>09:25 < Mamarok> and know what structure we are going to have exactly<br>and what tasks are needed to be covered<br>09:25 < markey> looks to me like lfranchi is kinda skipping this step<br>09:26 < markey> imho it would make sense to do that first<br>09:27 < markey> instead of voting a bunch of people, and then letting<br>them figure out what they actually do<br>09:28 < markey> the way it would happen now, we could vote 5 people,<br>among which is noone with the slightest clue about financials<br>09:28 < markey> i.e. no Treasurer<br>09:28 < markey> what then?<br>09:28 < markey> read a book on Treasuring?<br>09:29 < markey> I would say we want Greg Meyer to stay treasurer, if<br>he's up for the task [1]<br>09:29 < markey> the man is a professional<br>09:29 < markey> and has been doing this job for amarok for 5 years or<br>so, very successfully<br>09:30 < markey> (Greg is a professional accountant)<br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>First of all, yes Greg is an accountant. He has done an awesome job and I am really thankful that he has stayed onboard even when (it seems) he is quite busy.</div><div><br></div><div>We've been talking about this for 3 months now. We have not set up the board to be designated with certain positions. You have had innumerable chances to provide input on how we wanted to do this (did i mention that you were on the transition committee?) and this is the first time that this has come up. The board is 5 people who vote on whether or not to give funding to certain proposals, and maybe take care of legal things if something comes up. I don't see the particular value of having 5 individual "roles" for board members to be (what would they be? secretary? treasurer? we need 3 more...)</div><div><br></div><div>Also, our "treasurer" is basically the SFC (they are professional lawyers, accountants, and tax experts). They are the ones who actually have the money, and where our money comes from. So someone on the board will need to interact with them and work with them. However, they do speak english, which makes it much easier for a normal board member to be the one doing the task. That said, if Greg is a member of the board and (him willing) he ends up doing that part of things, that sounds great also. </div><div><br></div><div>Anyway in other news, we have a request to be a voting member so the original vote timeline is back on schedule. The current vote on a new member will continue until Friday the 6th, after which the board vote will begin. So this also gives us another week to discuss this. </div><div><br></div><div>leo</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div>Leo Franchi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(650) 704 3680</div><div>Tufts University 2010 </div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:lfranchi@kde.org">lfranchi@kde.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu">leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>