[Osmf-talk] Board term limits and term lengths

[Christoph Hormann]

On Monday 24 April 2017, Ilya Zverev wrote:
> Regarding the most prominent topic of the discussion, I would too
> prefer two-year term limits with three terms max. Because three years
> seems to be a long commitment, that would prevent people from
> standing for elections.
>
> Also, I don't see nothing too bad with e.g. 5 of 7 board members
> retiring at once, given the transparency of the further meetings will
> be kept on the current level.

If a potentially unbalanced election cycle (i.e. many seats being up for 
election in one year but just a few in another) is considered a 
non-issue this would have two big advantages:

* we would not need the replacement board member concept with a shorter 
term, instead any seat that becomes free could be filled for a regular 
term.
* we could transit to a fixed term length right away even for current 
board members which would avoid the extremely long term based on lot 
currently expected for one of Mikel/Peter/Martijn/Ilya due to their 
terms all starting in the same year (one of them will currently have a 
two year term while another one will have a four year term).

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/