I would add one more thing – I believe there should be a list for the general 
members discussion – possibly higher traffic, but no board decision making. The 
main reason to set a board list at that time was to clearly differentiate 
business from chatter. I am aware that other means are also used ( Slack, which 
I am not really on), but maybe this third list would be useful. Many, myself 
included, would only subscribe to it as a digest, possibly weekly.

Martin

From: Oceania <[email protected]> on behalf of Alex Leith 
<[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, 10 September 2020 at 9:20 am
To: Greg Lauer <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania Board Terms of Reference Update for 
Review

Hey Folks

For simplicity, I think we should keep the current lists and start the 
following behaviours:

  *   All OO comms that are not related to private or otherwise confidential 
discussions, including Board comms, go to the  oceania@ list
  *   Private OO Board comms go to oceania-board@ list.
If we want to clarify that the second list should be private, I think we can 
change it to oceania-board-private, but I don't really want to create another 
list... let's keep it as simple as possible!

Cheers,

Alex

On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 09:35, Greg Lauer 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Trisha - can you better define 'Board discussions'? Is this all communication 
between board members? Or those related to a particular decision making process?

If we are to replicate an OSgeo Board list then for it to be of any value Board 
and members should have read/write privileges whist community have read access 
only

Greg

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 6:17 PM Adam Steer 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Trisha

Thanks - for a board 'general business list' I reckon the ideal is 'anyone can 
subscribe, but only specific people can post without moderation - and all 
archives are open'. Mailman has plenty of power to vary a subscribers posting 
power as needed. We can get all these switches flicked on oceania-board easily, 
there's only a small task to audit the archives for anything which meets 
in-camera requirements.

A few OSGeo lists operate this way, including giving and taking power for 
unmoderated posting to individuals as required for specific discussions.

I think clear identification of the circumstances for in-camera discussion is 
great, thanks!

We still need to add this list as means of communication - I've added 
suggestions to the linked doc.

Regards,

Adam


On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 02:51, Trisha Moriarty 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thank you for your comments and it's great to see active discussion on the 
draft ToR v2.0. We can certainly make the requested modifications to the 
Board's communication processes  and the ToR can be modified to reflect the 
changed practice.

So just to confirm that  I understand the new process...

The Oceania-board list is to be made public, that is open for all community 
members to subscribe to. Having the dedicated board list will make it easier to 
track and filter conversations in our inboxes.
The board will  use the Oceania Board list for all board communications, except 
for those where privacy is deemed necessary.
A new list called Ocean-board-private will be used for these conversations, 
ensuring they can be archived.
We will list those circumstances in the ToR, so it is clear when the 
Oceania-board-private list can be used.
Currently there are two circumstances
1. code of conduct breaches
2. commercial in confidence matters
Are there any more? Do we need to be more specific with the commercial in 
confidence matters?

I have created a V2.1 on google drive and modified to the Communication Section 
to reflect the new processes mentioned above.  This is obviously still open for 
further suggestions and refinement of both the processes and wording.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mwuJeE_NunKieUP6z4yHSmvlAd8B4ZOHD0qBqeY6DyY/edit?usp=sharing<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mwuJeE_NunKieUP6z4yHSmvlAd8B4ZOHD0qBqeY6DyY/edit?usp=sharing>
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