Thread: [RFC] On the roles of Maemo Council and Maemo e.V.
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shawnjefferson is offline shawnjefferson
2014-10-04 , 17:17
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#173
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
I was once a member of a club with about 30 members. That's at least on the same order of magnitude as those ~100 active voters. We had a Prersident, a VP for membership, a VP for this, a VP for that, a Treasurer, two Sergeants in arms... in all, about 10 roles. Due to the small size of the club some people held multiple roles, so there was a Board of about 6 officials.

What we did not have was a council. The Board had the executive power (ordering materials, handling finances, organizing events...) and was responsible directly to the GA (the remaining 24 club members).

In my mind this club works exactly the same way (maybe not right now, but that should be the ultimate goal). The President represents the club officially. Negotiates with Nokia and Jolla, speaks with lawyers etc. The Treasurer handles the bank account. The VP for Membership handles the user accounts, bans, refraction points, permissions etc. Sergeants in Arms are the techstaff. They look after the hardware, maintain the website, garage and repositories. Simples.

In our club, all these roles were rotating on an annual basis. I am assuming the same here, though I am ready to stand corrected. Are the BoD permanent? If they are, what happens if one of them gets run over by a bus?
You can also have the MCev board delegate these tasks to anyone else (assuming that it is not a task that needs to be done by a director by law). It could very well work this way:

1. GA elects MCev Board.
2. MCev board delegates specific tasks (the things that Joerg mentions mainly) to volunteers from the larger maemo community (probably don't even need to be official members of the GA.)

In this case, there is only one election: The MCeV board. I have no idea why this wouldn't work for our small community. In my mind, it creates an organization that are all pulling in the same direction. If the MCev BoD wants to do some of the tasks, then great! Less managing of different roles. If they don't, then #2-delegate.

If you really like the idea of a "council", it can be done by #2, without the election. That way people can come and go all they like on "council", and the community isn't forced into an election to just get these day to day tasks completed.

Best of both worlds. You get a legal entity, responsibility to the community, and you still have the ability for other people to get involved and help the community in the ways they like.
 

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