I like the idea of the Inc. "advertising" people outside of the Inc. for
important roles in the community (kind of like we're 'hiring' volunteers)That
might be a good way to have the Inc. encourage growth without the Inc. trying
to dictate direction directly.
Sean, any interest in being a "Community Evangelist"?
Job Description: * Engage in community discussion and give a hand to new users
when you can * Manage the new forums (you'll get moderator) * Manage any social
accounts like twitter / google+ / linked in / etc * Listen to users, help
collect ideas, etc.
Pay is crap (nothing) but we could advertise you as Haiku's "Community
Evangelist" publicly. (and you'll be helping grow Haiku)As people grow in these
positions we could start giving perks like monetary help with hardware to run
Haiku on, etc?
Thoughts? Before the Inc. starts doing anything like this i'll have to get >
50% support from the Inc. members.
One more topic...
PulkoMandy mentioned us modifying the BoD to operate more like Xorg's BoD.
* 2 board members up for re-election every 1 year based on how long they've
been in the BoD * Nominees + eligible / interested current board members up for
re-election part of the election cycle. * Top 2 people with votes are sworn in
the BoD. * The Inc. would need to define a strong charter before this took
place.
As secretary I could help out with getting this stuff off the ground if there
is support behind it from the community + BoD
We would have to strongly validate the voter pool to prevent tampering. Maybe
only those with commit access or have submitted> 3 accepted patches can vote?
That's how Xorg does it.
-- Alex
Here are my thoughts, the INC does not actually control developers, it is a
volunteer project unless they have been contracted. what I am suggesting is
that a community member chair the BOD, lets create and elect one, only requires
a few people. Let these people handle Haiku inc, and let the developers work on
code.
To quote the movie office space
" I take the specifications from the customer, and then give them to the
engineers, I have people skills and engineers hate people "
So with that in mind, I don't see how the community benefits from having the
BOD controlled solely by the contributing authors. I don't think contributors
even benefit from it, much ado about nothing. I think it would be nice to have
a project coordinator or BOD chair that could handle things like Barrets
contract.
So I would be willing to assist. I also know how to do the 503c tax filling,
etc etc etc.
Having some leadership and stewardship would likely help re-engage some
contributors as well.
Sean