SC meeting 2025-10-08 17:00 UTC

Announcements Steering Committee
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Observers (have not expressed opinions): @edef @infinisil
Note/vote recorder: @infinisil

  • (needs unanimous consensus among present members) Approve @infinisil as observer/note taker

  • (needs unanimous consensus among present members) For publishing the full meeting notes (except private/sensitive info):

  • (needs 4 approvals) Defer vote on requesting board to fund a specific mediator:

  • (needs 5 approvals) Ballot measure, supermajority required, for the voters to decide whether the election is a normal election (what we currently have slated) or a full re-election. If the ballot measure passes by majority vote then the top 7 vote-getters are elected (4 2-year terms, 3 1-year terms), otherwise the election proceeds as normal (top 5 vote-getters are installed, John and Robert keep their seats)

    • Approve:

    • Reject:

    • Rejection arguments (agreed upon among rejectors)

      • @Ericson2314:
        I wish for forced resignations, votes of no-confidence, and terms forced to end early to be reserved for serious accusations of very inappropriate behavior, where the community at least agrees on what the accusations are / what the problem is. While many community members are currently upset, I believe there is great variety in what those community members are upset about, and thus we do not have that consensus, and that threshold is not met.

        If we nonetheless employ these extra-constitutional measures without meeting that threshold, I believe this will have a very strong chilling effect on future steering committees, and that would be quite bad for the health of the project. We arrived on our constitution because of widespread agreement that we had a “leadership vacuum”. If future SCs are scared of forced resignations, votes of no-confidence, and terms forced to end early, they will be quite timid, and we will still have a leadership vacuum.

      • @roberth: Other attributes of referendums may also be undesirable, particularly in the light of our Stable Evolution value

    • Conclusion: Not approved

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