Summary of the Hildon Foundation Board meeting
Via: @jaffa2
Editor: Ryan Abel
The Hildon Foundation Board held a meeting last Friday—the first for the newly-appointed board, and the first in nearly 2 months—to discuss a range of issues: the upcoming elections, the specifics of the Maemo Community Council/Hildon Foundation Council, temporary appointments of additional sysops, various administrative issues, and the selection of a new chair. Minutes are not yet available, and your editor doesn't have the time to listen through the recording of the 2-hour conference call, but Craig Woodward has announced some of the conclusions from the meeting on Talk: After much debate, a compromise position has been achieved within the HiFo Board of Directors to move forward in a way which we hope allows the community full choice in where we are going. This agreement is to hold an election of the Hildon Foundation Council (HFC), to run parallel with the Maemo Community Council (MCC) election, following the same election rules and criteria used for the MCC election.
The elected HFC can then form the proper election and membership criteria to be used for future elections of the Hildon Foundation, including elections of the Board of Directors. This would allow legally compliant Board elections shortly after the criteria is released, in a way similar to the "waterfall" vote happening with the referendum on MCC rules.
This is likely to prove to be a more confusing solution to voters than is ideal, but these compromises will hopefully allow the issue to move forward and get us closer to ensuring the election positions in the Hildon Foundation are filled by elected people.