On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Kat Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:41 PM, WereSpielChequers > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Phoebe, Often the most interesting thing about an agenda is what it >> omits. So the first board meeting after the SOPA blackout is not going to >> discuss blackouts, SOPA and lobbying? > > I am assuming Legal will bring it up in the context of the annual plan! > > But in our last in person board meeting--very shortly after the > Italian blackout, though I swear I put it on the agenda before > that!--we discussed whether this was something we should get involved > with/devote resources to at all, and what it would mean for us: > > https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2011-10-07 (search for > "advocacy") > > Now we're just into specific implementations. :-) > > -Kat
What Kat said -- also, in general, topics that don't make it to the in-person agenda are usually discussed over email and/or IRC; the in-person time is so limited that we try to limit to topics that would really benefit from face-to-face discussions. This meeting in particular we are trying a slightly different strategy in that we tried to limit the number of topics discussed, so we can go further in-depth for each one. Also, I think broad advocacy discussions will certainly continue for a long time into the future (versus the annual planning and fundraising discussions, which are time-sensitive). phoebe _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
