[Osmf-talk] Board term limits and term lengths

[Simon Poole]

Am 22.04.2017 um 16:02 schrieb Christoph Hormann:
> ...
> Fixed term lengths sounds nice, transparent and simple in theory but i 
> am not sure if it would actually be in reality.  So let's be specific.
>

Fixed term lengths tend to be the norm (and in most organisations the
length is one year) so it is not as if we are discussing something
extraordinary here. It is just that in the OSMF we have a long time
perpetuated fear of a rather unlikely scenario and we have always tried
to cater for that. If we really want to prepare for disaster there would
be other things I would suggest that could be more useful (like using a
shared contact database/CRM).

It is not as if no progress has been made compared to a couple of years
back, in particular the member database is now in a far better shape
than it used to be, and in general there are more people involved for
example in the SOTM group. Anyway back to the original topic.

Lets assume that we switch to a 2x3 system with this years AGM, then
Paul and 1 further member could stand for re-election for a two year
term then, next year another three and two in 2019. Note that this is
the same as with the current system and would work well with the current
board size. The downside is that we start off a new system with some
very long terms. I would slightly prefer two year ones, the downside
there is that we end up electing half of the board at every election
which some might find overkill and we would have to put special rules in
place for the transition instead of just letting the old system peter out.

Replacements for early step downs could stay in the same cycle as the
member they are replacing (which however would potentially give them
less total available time on the board, something that would work better
with two year terms.

Simon


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