The chair of the board, Michael, had posted the topics before the meeting and a short report about resolutions and issues discussed after the meeting.
Ting Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:49 AM, effe iets anders > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> From Sue's report, I understood that the current practice is to have board >> minutes approved only on the next board meeting. In practice that means a >> delay of several months. In a quickly changing world as ours, that is quite >> a long time span. >> >> > > That's a fairly standard practice. How would you approve the minutes > without holding a meeting? (Sure, you could do it using a unanimous consent > resolution, but that's certainly not typical.) > > Would it be possible to decrease this time span somehow, and approve the > >> minutes on an earlier moment? In that way, the volunteers can be kept more >> up to date, the board would work more transparently and better ways to >> interact and react on decisions made. Because if minutes are published >> months afterwards, the motivation to read them and react on it is obviously >> much lower then when they actually still have a direct meaning and are more >> or less recent. Besides that, if the community has imput on the decisions >> made, they could give it, and it could be discussed in that next board >> meeting, and not only the one after that (delay 6 months). >> >> I sincerely hope the board will find a way to publish the minutes within, >> say, two weeks to a month :) >> > > > Publishing a draft of the minutes (or an informal summary of the meeting) > would be one thing. Approving the official minutes is quite another. > > Are the meetings considered confidential? If not, there's nothing stopping > any board member from providing a summary at any time. If so, well, then > why publish the minutes in the first place? > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
