2009/9/8 Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]>: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Michael Snow<[email protected]> wrote: >> It does, but this is not an official meeting for the board to conduct >> business, it's a meeting to provide people in the community with a >> chance to have a discussion with the new board members. As such, I'm not >> sure it's meaningful to have minutes, but as mentioned it will be an >> open meeting and I'd think there should be no objection to publishing >> the entire log. And if "minutes" is taken to mean simply a summary of >> the discussion, no doubt that would be welcome as well. > > So, I just heard that this wasn't an official meeting after posting my > message. > > It seems pretty bizarre that the balance of the board first heard > about this meeting in the public announcement. I hope this isn't how > the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is going to conduct its business from > now forward.
The announcement makes it clear this is intended for the new board members introduce themselves to the community and have a chat with them, there is no real need for the rest of the board to have been involved in the planning. I don't see why you thought it was an actual board meeting. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
