Closed williamkapke closed 7 years ago
These outlines for different committee types are there so that the board can quickly form committees without passing an entire charter for each. When the board does pass a charter, as it has for the Community Committee, it can outline whatever restrictions and structure it wants, it doesn't have to fall exactly in line with any of the pre-defined definitions in the bylaws.
can outline whatever restrictions and structure it wants
right- we just need to get this part done or it falls to the rules above. (assuming CommComm wants this 😉 )
@nodejs/community-committee I added a cc-agenda label to this so we can discuss it in our next meeting.
right- we just need to get this part done or it falls to the rules above.
I don't think this is accurate. The board passed a charter that outlined a committee that clearly doesn't operate within the restrictions of a member or board committee.
I can refer you to outside counsel to clarify if you wish but I haven't heard anyone interpret the charter or bylaws the way you have here.
I would like the Linux Foundation to follow up with legal counsel to clarify.
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@williamkapke just email your question to Andy and CC us :)
@williamkapke I think we had comment from legal in one of the recent Board sessions on this. Was it a sufficient answer to close this issue?
The outcome was that CommComm is an undefined
type of Committee and that the TSC should probably just be an undefined
Committee too- but that would require changing the By-Laws... and doing it for something that isn't currently causing any problems.
Maybe some day a Silver Member will cash in on their rights and place someone on the TSC and then it'll be of concern ;)
EDIT: I just remembered that the language says the TSC is excluded from that right.
SOOoo AFA CommComm is concerned. This topic is not a problem.
1) The type of committee the Community Committee ("CommComm") is-- is not explicitly stated anywhere. The By-Laws define 2 types: Board Committees and Member Committees. The TSC is a Member Committee. I assume the CommComm was enacted under:
2) The TSC is excluded from the requirement that its committee members must be
Foundation Members
:3) A benefit of Silver Membership is the opportunity to place a representative on Member Committees:
I think we probably want CommComm to have the same exclusions the TSC has above.
/cc @nodejs/community-committee