Received: from localhost ([::1]:47292 helo=stodi.digitalkingdom.org) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YsCC9-0007yt-Tl; Tue, 12 May 2015 08:34:10 -0700 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:34193) by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLSv1.2:AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YsCC1-0007yD-PR for llg-board@lojban.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 08:34:08 -0700 Received: by pacyx8 with SMTP id yx8so16374592pac.1 for ; Tue, 12 May 2015 08:33:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; bh=M1SuBWMY9sLYR9/Qo9uakqUZCF4n1/fisp/iUD59UJk=; b=uTTDpgZiX2g+4/jJYPNGkyVCowwcLxZB/tciCuIcYqOFM9YXzvmoU64tryp2zJN5V2 ouNnlEe5tYVtGJ4W91C/fijHkxtAMXKLKUaBD23Sk+MqLgK1cUhoQHkurQRCSaScIP62 ZrexG9Udsf6itI2IJFoXB7K/uMCqw5A3pWENLZS/MnyHnY0NkFZsmC7WHs3GWmr2gTFJ zJV1YJ5fyXZwtLdVpUZMfWOgeA7RvsFlF/SR5EUZXSBC70FNWf1qJR2oQpCllrzcZnsJ bF1/LbovEe84pjZeNsk39mGuKGRJEWeYe9ZdHPdAjelhI0Cx9gxcoE9FNhxDDPTHn9OH bAFQ== X-Received: by 10.68.115.42 with SMTP id jl10mr29698726pbb.39.1431444835423; Tue, 12 May 2015 08:33:55 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <554513DC.1040404@lojban.org> <67FF02B5-7AF9-49A1-87A8-B8C1F76A16AA@gmail.com> <554B1CA4.1060509@lojban.org> <5550DD9F.2010607@lojban.org> In-Reply-To: From: Craig Daniel Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 15:33:54 +0000 Message-ID: To: llg-board@lojban.org X-Spam-Score: -2.0 (--) X-Spam_score: -2.0 X-Spam_score_int: -19 X-Spam_bar: -- Subject: Re: [llg-board] Board election X-BeenThere: llg-board@lojban.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: llg-board@lojban.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============3147250660158110355==" Errors-To: llg-board-bounces@lojban.org --===============3147250660158110355== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ff24c57ee5c4b0515e43893 --e89a8ff24c57ee5c4b0515e43893 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I would support this, conditioned on the board taking steps to encourage and assist the unofficial leaders within the Lojban community. On 5:52am, Tue, May 12, 2015 Riley Martinez-Lynch wrote: > On May 12, 2015, at 5:17 AM, And Rosta wrote: > > The members of the Board and even of the LLG weren't selected with the > purpose of ensuring the Board contained someone suitable for the sort of > active leadership role you very reasonably envisage as desirable. > > I suspect we may be seeing here a consequence of the fact that the > responsibilities of the Board are little understood by the community, and > even by the membership. This lack of understanding is at once cause and > effect of the long period during which there were few recruits, and has had > the effect -- as lojbab underscored in his presidential report a few years > back -- of shrinking the pool of prospective leaders. > > I think there's agreement that going forward the Board should make efforts > to keep the community informed about its work, if only in the interest of > cultivating potential directors and officers. I intend to work on that as > secretary. > > I have too much on in my life that requires me to be promptly attentive to > business for me to volunteer to take on this role. I am, tho, willing to > work with Riley on establishing whether the community wants an active > leader and on finding one; I would offer to take the VP role for one year > if that was the extent of my duties. > > I would support And taking on the role of VP, noting that one of the > duties of the president, which could possibly be delegated to the vice > president, is the determination of the timing of the annual meeting, and by > extension, the election of officers by the board. So in the case that our > effort to recruit new leadership bears fruit, the president and vice > president could choose to abbreviate their terms by calling the meeting to > order in late summer, etc. > > --Riley > > _______________________________________________ > llg-board mailing list > llg-board@lojban.org > http://mail.lojban.org/mailman/listinfo/llg-board > --e89a8ff24c57ee5c4b0515e43893 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I would support this, conditioned on the board taking steps = to encourage and assist the unofficial leaders within the Lojban community.=


On 5:52am, Tue, May 12, 2015=C2=A0Riley Mart= inez-Lynch <shunpiker@gmail.com> wrote:

The members of the Board and even of the LLG weren't s= elected with the purpose of ensuring the Board contained someone suitable f= or the sort of active leadership role you very reasonably envisage as desir= able.

=
I suspect we may be seeing here a consequence of the fact that the res= ponsibilities of the Board are little understood by the community, and even= by the membership. This lack of understanding is at once cause and effect = of the long period during which there were few recruits, and has had the ef= fect -- as lojbab underscored in his presidential report a few years back -= - of shrinking the pool of prospective leaders.

I = think there's agreement that going forward the Board should make effort= s to keep the community informed about its work, if only in the interest of= cultivating potential directors and officers. I intend to work on that as = secretary.

I have too much on in my life that requi= res me to be promptly attentive to business for me to volunteer to take on = this role. I am, tho, willing to work with Riley on establishing whether th= e community wants an active leader and on finding one; I would offer to tak= e the VP role for one year if that was the extent of my duties.=C2=A0

I woul= d support And taking on the role of VP, noting that one of the duties of th= e president, which could possibly be delegated to the vice president, is th= e determination of the timing of the annual meeting, and by extension, the = election of officers by the board. So in the case that our effort to recrui= t new leadership bears fruit, the president and vice president could choose= to abbreviate their terms by calling the meeting to order in late summer, = etc.

<= div>--Riley

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