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On 5/7/2015 5:36 AM, And Rosta wrote:
> On 7 May 2015 09:05, "Bob LeChevalier, President and Founder - LLG"
> <lojbab@lojban.org <mailto:lojbab@lojban.org>> wrote:
>  >
>  > Congratulations to Riley, our new Secretary/Treasurer.
>  >
>  >
>  > There still have been no nominations for President or Vice President.
> I'm willing to do one, but not both, and I'm can't promise to do much
> better than I have this past year, so the other person needs to be
> someone willing to help lead.
>
> Must the president come from the board?

It isn't required, but it isn't entirely clear how it could work.

If the President is not on the Board, it becomes an obvious question of 
"why not?"

> I note first that some past
> presidents have not exercised much visible in-front-of-the-scenes
> leadership.

If the Board wants such a president, it can have same.  I myself have 
had both visible periods and non-visible ones.  It has been my sense 
that the community wants someone more visible than I have been.  There 
has been a lack of clear community leadership, especially since Robin 
started to burn out in his multiple roles.

I do think that a President, however visible, needs to be more promptly 
attentive to business than I have been.  This past meeting has been an 
embarrassment, because I was constantly tuning out for several days at a 
time.

> So if it's okay to treat the role as purely formal then it doesn't really matter who holds it.

We've had a couple of years where the President did nothing other than 
chair meetings, but in those years nothing much got done.

> But if the president/vice-president should actively lead, should be on
> the board, and should not be you or the Secretary or Treasurer

The first two questions are pretty much up to the Board members as to 
what they want (and what they want LLG to be).  Perhaps we need to 
settle on a vision statement in order to choose a President consistent 
with said vision.  The one I wrote up envisions that between the 
President and VP there would be more active leadership than there has 
been, and that is what I think we need.  But maybe we can't get that 
with the people who are available.

It has generally been presumed that the different offices need to be 
held by different people.  However, for our first dozen years, I was 
President and Nora was Secretary/Treasurer, but I did both jobs except 
for producing meeting minutes.  Doing so the way I thought the jobs 
should be done became too much work once CLL came out, in part because 
my work habits are not diligent enough to do bookkeeping.

> then I am at a loss: I see no suitable candidates among me, Craig, Ali, Ark, Timo.

It is partly because I am not sure anyone else is up to taking on 
responsibility for the President job all-at-once that I have suggested 
that I continue as President while someone serves as VP and 
President-in-training.  I don't want the organization to fall apart if I 
am again incapacitated, or simply gone, so we need some type of 
transition to an organization that does not depend on lojbab for its 
continued existence.
(I've also worked better when I had an equally active partner, but I 
think that is a secondary matter to my getting old and somewhat infirm).

lojbab

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