Talk:Executive Director
Revision as of 13:03, 9 August 2006 by Wiki-JoWalsh (talk | contribs)
Issues that may affect how we-the-board spec and recruit the position:
- Desire to avoid "volunteer indifference" of the kind which affected WebCom so direly when Daniel was chairing it:
- ED would have a facilitator/support/mentor role, not 'manager' role
- Desire to avoid causing "member envy"; ED is a perception-of-kudos role, even if the reality is mostly gruntwork and overcommunication
- We need to be transparent, accountable (which to me implies keeping as much of this public as we can) - ED ditto - totally open process, reporting, timesheeting, whatever.
- Desire to avoid "request overload" / bottlenecking for ED - they would wind up dealing with all manner of member and user support issues
- ED's priorities should be 'sandboxed' - but we can't predict this upfront - depends on a person's skills and on the foundation's emerging needs and short/medium term focus
- Desire to make position self-sustaining - it's a really significant financial commitment. I wonder whether after the first year it would be viable to say 'okay we guarantee you half-time+benefits and the rest you have to raise for yourself through participation in grantwriting / admin / etc for project directed sponsorship through OSGeo'