splitting this off to keep Myrle's thread on topic On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 13:49, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We have the technology (via STeVe) to have a non-binding poll the > membership. We will have an election coming up in March-ish 2020. > The decision to fund interns from ASF funds is a binary one. > > My sense is that the board has been asked to make a difficult > decision, and is not ready yet to do so. We however have a path > forward that will give us more data, and we can put in place a plan to > poll the membership for guidance on the matter. We can ask those that > wish to do so to prepare a position paper (one each, pro and con) that > can guide the membership in casting their votes. > this sounds like a good idea to me I wouldn't' necessarily set March as the deadline. as a committee, we might not feel ready to make that move at that point. depends what our experience is like with Outreachy and what sorts of results we can show but in general, this seems like a reasonable way forward, should the committee decide that we want to pursue this avenue once again with a bit more experience under our belt
