[RadioExam Dev] charter ready to send to the board?

Heather Stern star at starshine.org
Fri Jan 9 10:43:07 PST 2009


> > We might want to say "oversees the SIG" and "are officers of this SIG" since
> > some people reading too fast might think "the organization" somehow refers
> > to Sbay as a whole, [...]
> 
> The definitions section already defines "the corporation" as SBAY.
> Since the charter uses "the organization" in places to refer to RadioExam,
> it can be added to the definitions to clear that up.
 
OK, sounds good.

> > by one level of indirection;  its Steering Committee is elected, then its
> > Committee selects one among themselves to be Coordinator.  It can be argued
> > that this is the reason that its Steering Committee members all need to be
> > corp members too, because they all need to qualify for the Coordinator post
> > - even if we didn't require it per the item below.
> 
> It doesn't say this so it needs to be added.  The Steering Committee was
> not supposed to be an annual term - appointments to the Steering Comittee
> are indefinite.
> 
> Members of RadioExam are all the developers or operational participants.
> 
> ASF has indefinite terms for its projects.  

Ahhhhhhhh OK.   Yeah, this intent deserves to be mentioned; in fact, the way 
you described it:
> Open Source projects usually do not elect their leadership - those who 
> participate work their way up in meritocracy style.
... looks just about perfect.

> > [*]     (It does not require: how the SIG accepts members of its own.)
> > 
> > However, this charter does list it, and the description looks good to me.
> 
> SIGs are not all required to be organized as membership organizations.  On
> some projects, it wouldn't necessarily make sense.  In this one, it does.

Yep :)


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