Post election IrcTeam/IrcCouncil changes

[Matthew East]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Nathan Handler <nhandler at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>  * The Council will have a chairman with a casting vote, appointed by
> the Community Council
>
>
> The IRCC can have this position if they want and request that the CC
> appoint someone, if not they can remove it from the document. Just let
> us know.
>
> No, this is standard policy in CC and TB and I would prefer to leave it in
> place for the IRCC and other delegated boards. If it's not in the delegation
> guidelines, it should be. In general, we'll appoint the chairman that the
> council prefers, but we reserve the right to do otherwise if needed.

As far as I know, none of the delegated councils have this position,
and it isn't part of the delegation guidelines. Personally I don't
think I've ever seen the need for a chairman in these boards and I
would generally prefer to encourage such councils to escalate an issue
to the CC as appropriate where there is no clear consensus or a
deadlock among council members because such an issue would obviously
be delicate and would probably warrant taking further advice. If you
really want to push the idea, I think that it should be discussed
first at a CC meeting. I don't think it's fair to push it into the IRC
Council guidelines before there is a clear policy for it in our
delegation guidelines.

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Matthew East
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