[OpenStack Foundation] board chair == two votes -was- Re: Technical Committee: new draft

Lloyd Dewolf lloydostack at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 19:26:29 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Bryce <jbryce at rackspace.com> wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2012, at 12:38 AM, Lloyd Dewolf wrote:
>> Is the expectation that the board would elect a Chairman of the Board?
>> Under what conditions would the board likely take that action? Pre-
>> Executive Director? Is it more likely to be used if the board shrinks?
>> Is it a safety switch? Is the board likely to elect the Executive
>> Director as the Chairman of the Board to enable the "CEO" to vote on
>> the board?
>
> The chairperson will be elected by the Directors from among the Directors (5.6 in the Bylaws). The Executive Director could only be elected Chairperson if he or she were also a Director.

I don't think it actually says that it. It says "from among the
directors". As it is lowercase directors, it isn't clear that the
Executive *Director* would be excluded.


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