Hi, :-) On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 02:08, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > What there is not, that I can see, is a way for the general membership > to remove the board, or a particular member of the board, beyond the > annual elections. > > Consider the following situation: > > The ESC makes a decision regarding the code that the BOD disagrees with > and exercises their rights under the ByLaws to place the ESC under > administration. Telling the ESC to either conform to the board's wishes > or to disband and allow the BOD to appoint a new ESC. > > The general membership is completely locked out of the process from my > reading of the current ByLaws. What if the general membership however > sides with the ESC on the particular issue. > > There should be a way for the membership, which through their vote is > after all the source of authority exercised by the BOD, to step in and > remove the board. > > Firstly - this would be IMO an extraordinary circumstance of course, and > whatever mechanism one would put in place _must_ present a rather high > hurdle in order to trigger application. > > Without offering any specific details on mechanics for the moment, what > I'm thinking of is a way for the general membership to call for an early > election of the board in such an extraordinary situation.
i don't think I'd want a mechanism to go as far as discharging the BoD, but maybe there could be a mechanism by which community members could call for a ballot to be cast on a motion put forward by concerned activists (kind of like organizing a petition)? This mechanism would then provisionally block implementation of the contentious decision until the vote has been held. The outcome of the vote would be binding. Is there a practical way to implement that? David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
