Rene Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
It's now been at least a year since Boost switched from the Software Freedom Conservancy to the Boost Foundation for its governance organization. But have people noticed any difference? Did you know that switch happened? Did you know that they held an election for the Board of Directors and for the Officers? Do you know when that election happened? Do you know who got elected? Do you know how they were selected? Do you know what their responsibilities are? Do you know what their bylaws are? Do you know their financials?
Honesty, the fact that the ex Steering Committee and now Foundation Board of Directors has a Google Sites web page, and Google Groups mailing list, not something at boost.org, made me think originally that it was either a scam/fake or something left over from pre-history before the boost.org domain was registered. I do now understand that is is a real thing (there is a link to the Google Sites web page from boost.org, in the sidebar under "community", which still says "Steering Committee" not "Foundation"). I don't know what the rationale for not using boost.org is. Maybe there is a belief that people on this list and/or the -users and -announce lists don't want to be bothered about what the committee/board are doing? If that's the case, I would say that it is not well-founded; at the least, the -announce list should be used to announce things like elections, and the bylaws (i.e. election process) should be available to read somewhere. I note that the Google Sites web page says that "You can make a request of the Board at any time through the *public* email list available _here_", but the link leads to a *private* Google Groups page. The old Steering Committee Google Groups page was public. Regards, Phil.