hi Allan; thanks for the question. On 25 May 2012 08:21, Allan Day <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes it can feel like the Board of Directors is a bit divorced > from the rest of the GNOME project. Is this a problem, in your view? > If it is, what do you think can be done about it?
I think that, given the role covered by the Board (and by the Foundation itself), some detachment ought to be expected. what needs to improve, and I put myself down to being one that has to improve his own role, is better feedback to questions coming from the community. in the past year, the Board tried to be very proactive: Karen sent her agenda and reports on Planet GNOME, we held IRC meetings, and we are always listening on [email protected]. we had mixed results with those, sadly. the lack of stable minutes publishing can be a contributing factor, but that explains lack of feedback up to a certain point; even without minutes, the IRC meetings have been pretty sparse in attendance, and few points have been brought up for the IRC specific agenda. I guess it's a case of a negative feedback loop: we give out fewer talking points, the community participates less, we get less feedback so we have less to give back, and so on, and so forth. interrupting the cycle may just be a matter of increasing throughput from the Board, and trying to get more people involved. I can only say that, as far as I'm concerned, I can try and keep up with minutes publishing (and I assume that people will pester me more to keep my in line :-)). other than that, do other people have ideas on how to increase the feedback from the community at large? ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
