[Osmf-talk] Board term limits and term lengths

[nebulon42]

Christoph's suggestion sounds reasonable. I would also be rather in
favour of term limits as it avoids that you get so acquainted of a
system or of a way of doing things that you lose track of those outside
this system. This risk is far lower in OSM than in politics in general
and I don't think any long serving board member is currently in risk of
that. Still having constant change without harming the organization by
removing those with experience would be good.


On 2017-04-21 at 02:22 Christoph Hormann wrote:
> We could for example introduce a 
> simple rule that anyone who has served something like 3.5 years or more 
> on the board is ineligible in any further election.

I'm not sure if this should be "in the next election" or "in the next
two elections". Do we want to exclude the possibility to serve at the
board again as in Mikel's case? In politics I remember one case where
this was abused by a straw man arrangement (big country). Do we face the
risk of something like that at OSM?

Michael

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