[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Executive Director

Ani Niow v at oneletterwonder.com
Sun Feb 28 20:23:25 UTC 2010


I would like to formally re-nominate Mitch for the position of the Executive
Director of Noisebridge.



-Ani



On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Jeffrey Malone <ieatlint at tehinterweb.com>wrote:

> 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
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