re-structuring

[tine.graf]

Hi all,
I work as a consultant and guide organizations through change
processes. I am not really involved in the Joomla project and have
therefore a clear emotional distance. I did an analysis of the current
situation of the Joomla project and presented that on the Joomla Day
New England. The feedback was ernormous and therefore I offered my
knowledge to support your work.
I was reading all your discussions, Paul's summary, the community
replies, etc.
Here the summary of my thoughts:
It is decided that
1. the COC should be resolved
2. a new board with 11 members should be established to terminate the
splitting between OSM, PLT, CLT. This board works with committees,
each lead by one board director.
3. until the new board is ready, an interim board with 3 members each
from OSM, CLT, PLT + 2 new members should be established.

However, what was not decided (at least I haven't find it) is how long
the transition (point 3) will take.

We have about 6 weeks to write the proposal, I would start like this:
1. Preparing a questionnaire (similar to yours, just with a little
change) to clarify who is since when a member (OSM; COC; PLT; CLT)
2. Clarifying the legal requests concerning COC and board re-
structuring. Who knows the current conditions? What is necessary to
start? Time frame?
3. Define the departments of the new board of 11 directors.
4. Define a general framework
4.1.for board working: election procedure, election period, necessary
votes, suspension rules, nomination procedure, responsibilities,
quality and evaluation plan, communication plan
4.2.size of committees, type of membership, duration, responsibilities

I hope we can agree on point 1 and 3 tomorrow and clarify point 2.

Looking forward talking with you.
Christine

[Jeremy Wilken]

Hi Christine,

Thanks for volunteering to join our discussions, and I just want to clarify that the proposal was not fully adopted so your first 3 points are not final decisions. It was agreed to gather input, and there was a lot of consensus that the proposal was good in its basic form, but it was not fully agreed upon. I just wanted to make sure that was clear!

Jeremy

[tine.graf]

What are the main objections and alternatives?
Despite of those 5 points Paul summarized here
http://groups.google.com/group/joomla-leadership/browse_thread/thread/fd993d5932214c74?hl=en

[Jeremy Wilken - Gnome on the run]

The 1-5 list from Paul were suggestions. I mostly wanted to make sure it was clear that at this point (unless I'm mistaken) the only thing that has actually been agreed to was to get feedback about the idea. Tomorrow we can discuss our main objectives, I think that is part of what we need to establish.