On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 05:43 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of > missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much > time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you > plan on spending that time?
I expect this to take a few hours per week. In case times are rough I can always spend less work in other areas that I am involved in (that was basically the case for the release-team for the last weeks before the GNOME 3.0.0 release). > 2.) Other open source / free software projects run their meetings in > the open via IRC (such as Fedora's FESCO I believe). Would you > consider that, and if not, what about recording how board members vote > on a given topic. This includes +1 / -1 / abstains and perhaps give a > small comment on any -1 or abstain. The board will always have to handle some topics that cannot be public from the very beginning. Traditionally for meetings I prefer IRC to phone - it takes longer, but it's easier to document and to see who says what. Back in those days when I was in politics we always had a public part of our meetings that was open for everybody to join (listening only though for guests, speaking just after an invitation to do so), followed by a non-public part (if needed). Previous board members are likely in a better position to comment whether this could be feasible for board meetings, but that's my idea. > In my opinion, as an open > foundation, the transparency of the board is absolutely critical > _where possible_. Leaders should always set the example for members. Totally agree. :) andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper | http://www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
