The Great and Powerful TORN wrote: |
lets not try to open the perfect board.
I don't think anyone is trying to do that since it's not possible. I think many people want to be as prepared as they can be.
Understood -- it was a bit of hyperbole. And I also understand that there is not universal agreement even on the proposition of opening up at all, or any time in the near future -- for example, although I don't really have much of a feeling either way on the idea of letting all the people in Invite Limbo in right away, the idea that there are still some people that some of us wouldn't want in doesn't exactly jive with the idea that the Board might open in the near future. My own view is that opening up won't be some kind of nirvana, but it will help get us past at least a good portion of these issues and will bring a little circulation to the room, so to speak -- I just don't see a huge permanent growth in the community, barring . . . I'm not sure what.
How's this for a suggestion -- write up a one or two page transitional governing document that deals with only the most crucial matters, and those in terms of general principles, with an addendum consisting of the in-progress constitution. Put that document up for an up-or-down vote -- if it gets a super-majority vote (2/3 or 3/4, I don't care), we go with it. If it fails, we can open for general discussion and amendments for a period of a few days, then vote again as before. If it still fails, then take it paragraph by paragraph through the discussion/amendment/vote process. If we get approval on the first try, it might take a week or so; the second try, 2-3 weeks; after that, I don't exactly know. However, while all this goes on, the work of the constitution committee continues. If we get approval of the transitional document, then the draft constitutional provisions would be treated as "advisory" with regard to the related parts of the transitional document are concerned, until the constitution is fully ratified and becomes the law of the Board. If we fail to get agreement on the transitional document and that process bogs down, the constitutional work continues apace and, hopefully, gets finalized and the whole transitional document just falls away without ever being implemented.
If we assume (ass-you-me) this model is agreeable, there are person-power issues raised, as we don't really want our constitutional committee dragged away too much from their important work. So once an initial draft of the transitional document is completed (either by the current constitution writers, or in conjunction with others), I and others who have not undertaken major duties on the constitutional issue could do the tilling and tending and what-not needed to get votes taken and discussions opened and the like.
Don't worry -- I won't be offended if you think that's an aweful idea --
INSTEAD, I SHALL EXACT REVENGE!!!