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

[Khaled KOUBAA]

Patrick,
I was speaking on my capacity as chapter delegate and not as board 
member. And I join you in the definition of the board member mandate.
I agree with you that the "complain after the fact" mechanism is not 
optimal but we need to discuss the issue and give our positive 
contribution to help avoid this next time.
Khaled


Patrick Vande Walle a écrit :
> 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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