2009/9/9 Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Michael Snow<wikipe...@verizon.net> wrote: >> Thomas Dalton wrote: >>> 2009/9/8 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Michael Snow<wikipe...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> Perhaps the jargon of agendas and meetings and minutes added to the >> confusion. A different framework that might be more fitting is to think >> of it like the "office hours" that the strategic planning team is > > Yes, precisely. I always find 'office hours' a bit confusing in the > same sense, when not used by a professor : whose office is it? and > that feels less collaborative and more query-response than an open > meeting. The reason for asking for community moderators and > note-takers is to emphasize that this is an open meeting, with the > agenda defined by the participants. Please feel welcome to change the > language on the Wikimedia meetings page.
How about "Open-door session"? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l