Mkpd
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| Project Hope Board of Directors
I guess we have agreed on the project name since the poll slava ryklin ran shows that 44% of the members voted for "Project Hope" »[Poll] Name for this project
How do we want to choose the Board of Directors?
How many Board members? I think 9 would be good. 4 hosts and 5 TD members (By default I think the hosts should automatically become board members)
Personally, I think we should first ask for volunteers and if we have too many we can always call a vote to cut the number down if necessary.
Should we open the floor for volunteers?
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| being that I'm pretty wiped out right now (sleepy), this might not make sense but I'm gonna try...
suggest ROUGHLY defining positions before volunteers??
eg:
Pres
VP
Sec
Treasurer
Tech officer
Hoster 1
Hoster 2
Hoster 3
Hoster 4
okay.. hoster sounds pretty lame ..
just my suggestion.
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Mkpd
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| Good thought.... The project needs a kick start from time to time. I was not sure how we wanted to proceed and actually I still dont know the proper method to use to determine Board members.
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Near KCMO | I have been a board member before and am one now for that non-profit. I would be glad to serve on Project Hope.
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I'm mildly against the idea of titles for the board members. It carries an implication that one is better than another. I understand the need for a treasurer, but not for a pres and VP.
Nine does seem like a good number though.
9 members of the Mimbari Grey Council,
9 ringwraiths...
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said by Otterboyy  :
Slava, the king of thread finding, can find the links to how the Seti team started this out and that can be used as a model or a foundation for this group.
I'll make it my mission today Mark to have a good example of what each position holds
by looking at how we once set this up.
It will take a little time for me to research how we had this set up.
But I'll have it by the end of the day.
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said by babacher :
I'm mildly against the idea of titles for the board members. It carries an implication that one is better than another. I understand the need for a treasurer, but not for a pres and VP.
I agree with you on that Bruce...
And it will be up to us just how we want that to come about.
Don't you just love history?
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said by babacher :
I'm mildly against the idea of titles for the board members. It carries an implication that one is better than another. I understand the need for a treasurer, but not for a pres and VP.
Nine does seem like a good number though.
9 members of the Mimbari Grey Council,
9 ringwraiths...
Certainly understand about the mild objection to the titles. Something generic can be used, such as Advisor Position 1 - 9 or some such.
Trying to think clearly now but I keep thinking in Oracle database terms. OFA, OMF, Segments, Blocks sizes, v$ blah blah blah.
I'm confident that others on this team will suggest some other names. =)
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A nine member board sounds reasonable. On two boards that I have served on, the board members elected three positions;
Chairperson - One person needs to run the meeting otherwise you get chaos.
Treasurer - Especially if the project will be collecting funds
Secretary - Someone must maintain meeting minutes and preserve and store any other documentation of the project. |
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Whatever you decide as far as board members, you may also want to have an open discussion (free-for-all??) on how board meetings are conducted. See »FP Open Board Meetings
I hope everyone realizes that building/running a supercruncher is going to be the easy part---keeping everybody happy is the bigger challenge.  
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| Linda I can understand your concern here...
And I believe that many members over at Seti had the same concerns when we first started.
The fact that a board will be set up does not, by no means, mean that anyone will have any less say.
It will just help organize things and make theme go much smoother.
Someone to collect money and parts.
Somebody else to organize everything and so on.
What we decided way back at Seti to prevent one member or the board of having too much power is that all members that contributed to the project had equal say.
Hence your vote would be just as valuable as the Presidents per say 
It also eliminated many people that would voice there opinions but really had no intentions of promoting the project.
I know that we have more then one member on this team that is also on the Crunchenstein board of members.
And that might be something that we might want look into, when this finally gets rolling.
Hopefully this made some sense
And Linda you will see that this will be a fun project and everyone will be evolved.
(If they choose to be that is) 
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said by babacher :
I'm mildly against the idea of titles for the board members. It carries an implication that one is better than another. I understand the need for a treasurer, but not for a pres and VP.
I think it's very important to have structure, a line of command for this. Otherwise, it can become chaotic & can cause more problems than it will solve. Titles may not be necessary as long as there is a line of command so to speak.
I agree with ColdinCbus that we do need people to do the work of Chairperson, Treasurer & Secretary.  |
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said by babacher :
[snip]...
Nine does seem like a good number though.
9 members of the Mimbari Grey Council,
9 ringwraiths...
...cats have 9 lives...
Generic Board titles sound like the way to go to me.:)
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Thanks slava. I'm not worried about having my "say" on how things are done. I'm sure the project will run smoothly. My point was about group dynamics. A quick read of the thread I linked will show the tensions between members which can arise (and probably will arise, no matter what you do). Frankly, it put me off of actively participating in such a project. That's right, I like to be happy.
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| I think the dynamics of a project like this will have some differences. The key is getting things out in the open as much as possible when some don't see eye to eye.
I the case you linked it looks like they worked it out. Calm heads need to prevail in order for this to succeed.
We need to keep in mind that when people invest their money or parts to this project they have a vested interest. They're bound to speak up in a situation like this.
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For the record, I am paying attention to this project. Just not saying much as my thoughts have already been voiced by others.
I don't know if having a board is necessary personally. If someone is taking donations for parts, then I really am not going to expect much in return other than seeing it run. A donation is just that, a donation. It isn't like we are investing in the stock market where there is some return at the end. This return we are getting back is just results on a cruncher.
I am willing to go with the flow though. Sorry if I confused everyone.
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| said by Nightfall :
[snip]... If someone is taking donations for parts, then I really am not going to expect much in return other than seeing it run. ...[snip]
Yes, but aren't we donating to the team and not an individual?
You may be right that a full Board is not necessary, but there should be some control to make sure that the crunchers made with donated parts an $$, should stay with the team.
Although, trusting the hosts is a major part of that "control".;)
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Generic titles are they way ot go with the exception of a chairman, secretary and tresurer...these are three essential roles and really do not give the members any more power or authority over the others.
Chairman...to control the chaios
Secretary...takes and passes on notes to all members
Tresurer....$$$
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| Just an FYI... I may not give much input into this in the next few days. I'm going to Montana so leave me in for as a host and I'll help in any other ways I can, but I won't be back until Wednesday. I'll still be able to do the stats in the mornings, but I won't be around to do much else.
Now, when I get back I expect this to be all cleaned up!
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I like the committee idea. I think everyone should be given an equal title but I also think that from that group a couple people will emerge as the leaders and essentially be in charge.
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