[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Executive Director

[Jeffrey Malone]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
>> We currently have all of these things.  AFAIK, until the board appoints
>> a new ED, Jake continues in his appointment from last year.
>
> That's my reading as well. Officers serve until replaced; Board
> members have terms of office.
>

Actually, you have that kind of backwards.
Both have terms -- 1 year.  Board members remain in office until they
are replaced.
There is no such clause for officers.  Our bylaws state that they must
be appointed annually, and as the year ran up at the beginning of
October, so did the term for all three officer positions.

Noisebridge has been without an ED since October.  This has been
stated at a board meeting and a general meeting.
In fact, two board members even tried to simply appoint an ED at the
last board meeting to "fix" this.  They even planned to do so without
consulting the members before conceding to objections that while the
legal authority exists for them to do that, it runs completely against
Noisebridge policy.



In general, I would like to thank all of you for turning this into a
discussion about what people feel the ED is, and absolutely nothing to
do with actually selecting a new one.
You might argue that you feel defining the role is the same thing.
It's not -- who it is, and what they will be doing are two different
controversial subjects.  Intertwining them has, as best I can tell,
resulted in absolutely no progress on either side.

So any chance this can get back on topic to its original intent of
nominating people for the ED?  Or should I simply give up?

Jeffrey