Some Thoughts on directors meeting 2016-06

[peter_hellyer (Pete Hellyer)]

Continuing the discussion from Directors Meeting: 2016-06:

@Makerspace

At present South London Makerspace has three directors who have ultimate legal responsibility and control of the company. Until now we’ve called them Trustees, and they’ve also been leaders/decision makers. To remove any ambiguity about our actual position, we’re going to drop the “Trustees” title from now on. Hopefully that will help to alleviate some of the assumed baggage that comes with the title.

I have many many thoughts about the minutes from the directors meeting, that I don’t have time to expand on right now. I’m heading to see my sister who has just this very hour bought forth new offspring. Life as usual, takes absolute priority.

Can I just point out though as I’m irked right this second, substituting “Trustee” for “Director” has the exact opposite effect to the relatively well thought out intention of this policy. I note this, mostly because I have seen all of the rules and regulations updated over the course of the morning to this new nomenclature. Also, I fail to see how hierarchy is not imposed when most of those rules and regulations start with “get permission from a director”

That’s all for now. I’m not checking in for a few days, whilst the head of my infant niece is successfully wetted.

[tomnewsom]

I understand exactly where you’re coming from. In fact, this is a valuable reminder of how many times the word crops up.

Personally speaking, I’m very keen to see that number go down.

[unknowndomain (Tommie)]

Thanks for the feedback Pete, my thoughts:

@peter_hellyer

substituting “Trustee” for “Director”

This is perhaps a confusion, it’s not substituting, but removing the term trustee, we were always company directors, this isn’t a Charity or CIC, the term was attempting to ape London Hackspace, et al.

@peter_hellyer

Also, I fail to see how hierarchy is not imposed when most of those rules and regulations start with “get permission from a director”

This is precisely the problem the new governance should be aiming to resolve, however if we Command-Z those changes, and put the word trustee the rules are still the same.

The change of the word only has an (intentional) affect of changing the perception of who this group of three people, soon to be two are.