Re: Should the project hire one or two persons to help the DPL?

[Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name>]

gregor herrmann schrieb:

> I also know from personal experience in (non-software) volunteer
> organizations, and a friend of mine has written her diploma thesis on
> this topic researching yet another NGO, that a setup with a volunteer
> board/committee/chairperson/president and employed
> executives/secretaries is difficult, as the latters are the one
> spending more time, collecting more information, becoming the
> information centre, … over time, and hereby either become the de
> facto power centre or at least causing struggles or fights over who
> actually controls the whole thing.

Perhaps that could be avoided by limiting the term of employed staff;
not necessarily to just one year, but to two, three or four years.

-thh