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Thanks for this. We still need a mechanism for steering council members to leave if we are going to have a maximum. This could be a limit on the time someone is emeritus.

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We should leave this one open. Thanks for collating the comments @mbargull!

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I'm curious about the reasoning for the Steering council size minimums and maximums. My view is that steering councils should be representative and small so that governance work can proceed without too much overhead. I have experienced large steering councils before and ultimately they end up taking a lot of overhead to maintain and manage. We don't have great tools (i.e. an app or crypto multi-sig for managing asynchronous coordination between people). I would prefer to see something like the minimum being 3 and the maximum being 9.

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@teoliphant see this conversation (#51 (comment)) for the minimum/maximum, @tnabtaf should have more context for why the maximum was dropped

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gh-51 is about to pass.
There are a few outstanding review comments mostly regarding council size, declared funding state/sources/etc.
Referencing them here to keep track of them since (IMHO) we should revisit/discuss those concerns further:

• #51 (review)
• #51 (review)
• #51 (review)

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Hi All,

The original min and max were set to 9 and 21. I picked 21 by taking the current size of the steering council (high 20's I think), then determining common funding for current members, and then knocking down each common funding block two 2 people. That gave me 21. We added a max size because Van Lindberg suggested that having a max size would let interested companies know how maximally diluted their council votes would be.

By then @CJ-Wright raised the case where someone might leave a funder, but not leave the council. That's fine if the council is not at maximum size, but if it is, it means that either the member's former company would no longer be able to get a seat, or that the person would have to quit. Neither of those seemed good, so we eliminated the maximum.

For @teoliphant's proposal, I don't think that a maximum of 9 will be workable for this community. I point to all the discussion about people being forced off now because of the two person common funder limit. I can imagine the pain if we went down to just 9 people.

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