[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Board Elections 2011

[jim]

   nice response. how to discover "the features" 
so's to figure out how to use random selection 
in a way that accommodates "the features" (i.e. 
hack the feature list)? 



On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 11:43 -0800, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:01:06AM -0800, jim wrote:
> >    this voting business seems distasteful. last 
> > year there was a little discussion that included 
> > the suggestion of randomly picking board members: 
> > i like that a lot, kind of like the way we got 
> > our president--worked great! 
> 
> Agreed, it's worked out OK.
> 
> >    is there any reason why we can't just draft 
> > members in good standing and let them object if 
> > they don't want to be board members? 
> 
> In general I think that would be pretty cool if we could work out the
> kinks.
> 
> One kink that comes to mind: We don't require that board members be
> voting members; this year we've had one non-member boardmember, and I
> think that's worked out well, too.
> 
> The other possible objection is, US (and California) corporate law
> *really* wants corporations to be democratic and majoritarian (although
> the "majority" can be defined in odd ways, by share for example).  We'd
> probably have to investigate the law to make sure we don't Do It Wrong.
> In particular, the standard election process is specifically designed to
> implement some security features that our consensus process doesn't
> have; and, implementing a process that lacks those features may pose
> problems for us.
> 
> -andy
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