[Members] Re: [Xf_board] Re: Nominations for X.Org Foundation Boardof Directors are OPEN

[Egbert Eich]

Peter  Winston writes:
 > 
 > 
 > I think that the larger point is that everyone enjoys work on developing new
 > code. 
 > 
 > But X.org is an organization that needs to provided infrastructure.   The
 > Organizational functions, enforcing trademarks, keeping the website current,
 > legal fillings, meeting minutes, finance are falling though the cracks.  
 > 
 > I've heard many times, that X.org doesn't' need any money. This is a clear
 > example of a spot where $200 would have fixed this months ago.

Peter,

it didn't happen because we did not want to throw money at this.
It's true that we wanted to avoid this but if we had dealt with
things differently we may have found a way to get things fixed
much earlier without money.

 > 
 >  IMHO, this is not anyone fault nor is it a big deal, but it's a good
 > example of a core an organizational problem. 
 > 
 > With a BoD election upcoming I would suggest that the BoD, should focus on
 > the business and organization aspects to keep the infrastructure up, and NOT
 > do anything technical. The Architecture committee should have exclusive
 > control of the technology. (And they should be made up of different people,
 > with different skills)

The board itself has not dealt with technical issues in the recent past.
Did you have a chance to look at the summaries?

Cheers,
	Egbert.