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-- Dick On 12-Feb-08, at 1:57 PM, Scott Kveton wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
