On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 15:42:45 Justin Herman wrote: > Just a point of order... > > Per the Bylaws, Section 5.3, the membership does not decide the dues, the > board does.
Right, but it would be a Very Bad Idea to not get consensus on what is reasonable. > > Each member must pay, within the time and on the conditions set by the > board, the dues, fees, and > assessments in amounts to be fixed from time to time by the board. > > So a champion needs to call a board meeting. > > (PS: I am in support of having a senior discount as suggested by Philip and > interested in talking about family discounts) > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Torrie Fischer <[email protected]>wrote: > > Last night's meeting seemed to go alright, though less good than last > > week's: > > > > * It devolved into a series of back and forth Q&A sessions between two > > people > > waaaay too often > > * Nobody had anything they wanted to bring up after we talked about the > > wall > > > > I'd like to discuss two improvements to the meeting. > > > > First, a stack-watcher. > > > > The role of the stack watcher would be to catch who raises their hand > > first > > and ensure that everyone gets a chance to speak in the order that they > > want > > during discussion. When listening to discussion, I'm trying to keep an eye > > on > > the notes on the screen, watching for raised hands, making sure that > > nobody > > talks for too long, and trying to remember the stack of topics that we're > > discussing (i.e., start on the wall, move down into ventilation, move down > > into moving the furnace, move back up to ventilation, back up to the wall, > > down to ceiling height, etc). > > > > It'd be super cool if someone could play stack watcher next week. Just > > keep a > > list of who is speaking when on a whiteboard. > > > > Second, a programmed agenda. > > > > Philip and I were talking about this, regarding the fact that membership > > dues > > and senior rates haven't been brought up yet. This also ties in with the > > recent discussion about a proposal that had been brought up before and was > > still open for discussion, but nobody brought it to the meeting. > > > > I'd like to request that everyone adds topics that they want to see > > discussed > > or consensed upon to the next meeting's agenda before Saturday night. That > > provides a few immediate benefits: > > > > * Everyone knows what we'll be talking about in advance > > * Nobody has to go check the proposals page to figure out what needs to be > > talked about > > * The meeting can progress along a lot smoother > > * We don't end up like last night where we talk briefly about the few > > issues > > that anyone remembers to bring up while other issues aren't considered > > * If what you want to talk about isn't on the agenda, you can be free to > > not > > show up if you don't want to, safe in the knowledge that you won't get > > screwed > > over because your voice wasn't heard > > * Proxies can be stated more concretely than "Hey, if we talk about this, > > here's my opinion" > > > > To avoid any kind of competition, I'd like to have the list of topics > > projected on the screen (since it'd already be in the meeting minute > > template > > that gets edited), and we collectively decide on what we want to discuss. > > > > Also related to the crosspost from noisebridge-discuss@, I am looking into > > building various decision making plugins for Spiff which we can then use > > to > > completely remove all this proposal discussion from the meeting and put > > everyone on a solid footing instead of giving such a *huge* advantage to > > those > > who have the free time to show up on a Tuesday at 7PM. > > > > Thoughts, please! > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://synhak.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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