I would recommend against just taking volunteers and instead pick people that you know are good hiring managers or who add a specific view point. (I recruited the hiring committee referred to in that blog post.)
Stormy On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Andrea Veri <a...@gnome.org> wrote: > = ED Search meeting minutes for Friday, February 11th, 2015, 17:00 UTC = > > == Attending == > * Ekaterina Gerasimova > * Rosanna Yuen > * Marina Zhurakhinskaya > * Jeff Fortin > * Andrea Veri > * Sriram Ramkrishna > > == Regrets == > * Karen Sandler > * Tobias Mueller > > == Missing == > > == ED Search meeting == > > * We should be having a hiring committee > * Job description to be done jointly by the board and hiring committee? > * Do we have a list of names we can consult already? > * How many people should be in the committee? 5 or 7 (odd number required) > * Sri points out we should check who is subscribed to the > engagement-private > * Previous committee members: > http://calcifer.org/notes/2010/12/executive-director-hiring-committee.html > * The idea is involving people from many different companies to represent > the Advisory Board as a whole > * How much should the committee members be a part of the current > community vs extended (partners, emeritus members) community? Are we > interested in asking the involvement on the committee to any "extended > community" member? > * No more than 1/3rd of the committee should be from the same company? > Same as for the board > * Any Board member going to be joining the committee? last time we had > one member which was ideal as this person was able to report back to the > Board and knew Board's policies and procedures. Who should be that liaison? > * Should we ask advisory board for recommendations and to let us know if > they would like to be on the committee? > * Yes, do that, ask them to respond within a week; hold off on asking > anyone above > * What should we discuss with the advisory board in a meeting? > * ED search > * conferences > * sponsorships > * privacy campaign update > * ACTION: Sri to draft a mail to the adboard list to gather some feedback > and give them a week to respond with suggestions or volunteer themselves > * ACTION: Jeff to send a quick reply to foundation list to let them know > we've had a special meeting today. Minutes will follow in the upcoming days. > * ACTION: Kat to email the adboard to schedule an adboard meeting > > == Pending action items == > * Sri to draft a mail to the adboard list to gather some feedback and > give them a week to respond with suggestions or volunteer themselves > * Jeff to send a quick reply to foundation list to let them know we've > had a special meeting today. Minutes will follow in the upcoming days. > * Kat to email the adboard to schedule an adboard meeting > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Andrea > > Debian Developer, > Fedora / EPEL packager, > GNOME Sysadmin Team Coordinator, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-announce mailing list > foundation-annou...@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce > >
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