[Chapter-delegates] ISOC 2008 Chapter Review - Your feedback?

[Patrick Vande Walle]

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:52:22 -0400, Veni Markovski <veni at veni.com> wrote:
> Khaled,
> I am surprised you didn't know about it, and nobody have asked you. But 
> I hope that Patrick or Alejandro have been asked.

Veni,

Speaking as a board member, I confirm I was not aware of this initiative.
However, had I been asked, I would have approved it on the principle. 
The implementation details are, as usual, the job of the staff. As a
former board member, you know that it is not the role of the board to
micro-manage the Society. You and I and others have been blamed for that
several times in the past. You also know that, once elected to the board,
your fiduciary duties are towards the Society as a whole, and not as an
advocate of the particular group that has elected you. But this should not
prevent a trustee to bring to the board his/her particular area of
expertise for the benefit for the Society as a whole.

I agree that the "complain after the fact" mechanism we have is not
optimal. There were several examples in the past of the l

Whatever is done is done and it is 


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