Hi, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote: ... > I thought a bit about the AGM we had a few days ago, and I'd like to > suggest we find a different format for next year. > > Here's a list of issues with the current format, from what I saw this > year: > > - it was a bit too long. A small break might have helped. > > - the discussion about changing the release team had to be cut, because > it would have used too much time needed for the other reports. > However, I think this is a discussion a lot of people cared about and > that could have been used more time. Especially since we had everyone > in a room, which helps communication. Hopefully, the GNOME OS BoF was > useful for this (I missed it, so don't know). > > - I didn't feel there was a lot said about the Foundation itself. Sure, > there were a few slides at the end, but that was not that much > detailed, and because of the short remaining time, it went really > fast. > > - obviously, we should have had time for questions. Questions from the > members, but also from the board to members (to bootstrap discussion > on some topics). > > - it might be a good idea to have some kind of document sent before the > AGM to foundation-list or the members, so we have more details about > what's going to be discussed. This could be just the slides, or > something different. Having some time to ponder about the content is > useful, and that could lead to more questions or some improved > discussion. ... > Another approach would be to split the team reports and the AGM in two > different slots. Easy to do and not that much impact. Probably something > we could try next year? ...
I agree that the AGM was a bit constrained this year, and these all seem like good suggestions. Perhaps it would be good to split the GUADEC closing out into a separate session too (so we have 1. team reports 2. AGM and 3. GUADEC closing)? An open call for questions or discussion topics can often be inhibiting; I'm sure that we would have a livelier debate if we had a set of potential discussion topics prepared in advance. The Board could organise this depending on current hot topics. We could also pull recent discussion subjects from the Foundation list. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
