Hi Everybody, I sent a note out earlier about the board meeting we'll be having on Thursday but I wanted to follow-up quickly with a few guidelines for the call as we have several new members joining us.
* General Business: We cover some basics around general business to start the call off. This involves voting to approve previous board meeting minutes, finance update about money in/out of the Foundation's bank account and also gathering any agenda items that can be appended to the end of the meeting. Ideally all agenda items will be sent in before the meeting and I'll share them on the Google calendar we have. * Committees: There are currently several committees within the OpenID Foundation that have been organized to accomplish things like manage finances, oversee trademarks, etc. We'll want to revisit this/get acquainted with during the first call with everyone in attendance. I imagine we'll want to augment/update/add to these committees with the expanded scope of the Foundation. For a comprehensive list, see here: http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID_Foundation/Committees * Motions/voting: We often have discussions that lead to having to make a decision about something. We generally call for a motion and a second. If that is reached, the Chair will ask if there is anyone opposed to the motion. If not, we'll consider the motion passed. * Meeting minutes: The secretary (currently Martin Atkins) takes notes during the call. He will record everything unless otherwise noted. Some discussions warrant a "closed door" so please mention this if you're not wanting something mentioned in the minutes. The minutes are distributed privately to the board and will be voted on during the next board meeting. If approved, they will be sent to the [email protected] list as well as posted on wiki.openid.net. * Timing: Ideally the board meetings will run 1 hour at the longest. If it can be discussed on the mailing list, it should be. We're all busy people so when the meeting is done, the meeting is done. We don't have to fill the hour. I'll ask that everyone keep this in mind as we're on the calls. Let me know if I missed anything or if you have any questions. Talk to you all on Thursday. - Scott _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
