John Plocher wrote: > I assert that, if we don't get to quorum, choice 3 is the only viable one for > us > as a community. As it stands now, we have ~80 people who care enough about > the > community to actually participate in its operation. This implies we have a > community structure that is out of whack with the community itself, and the > first thing the new OGB (along with the 80 or so members who have indicated > that they wish to be involved) needs to do is figure out a better structure, > play test it for a year, adjust things as needed, write down what works, and > forge *that* document into a constitution to be voted upon next year. > > Thoughts?
"80 people who care enough about the community to actually participate in its operation" is a poor assessment of the turnout on IRC, I believe. It's more like "80 people who joined the meeting despite any clear direction, agenda, structure or purpose for said meeting". I believe a significant number of the non-joiners do care about the community but did not join based on not understanding what we hope to achieve in some chaotic assembly in IRC, not currently being IRC users (or not outside of Sun, perhaps), having no agenda/timetable, being overwhelmed by the huge noise to signal ratio and the endless zillion line emails etc. The apparent fact that there is no agenda or clear goal of what such a meeting should achieve other than to check that people are still alive and capable of joining an IRC channel (not much motivation to turn up) seems clear from the early and pre meeting discussion between OGB members and others who do care. I think we could readily whip up the remainder of a quorum with a frank email to the CC's (and, I'd suggest, the internal ON gate alias which many Sun folk will filter at higher priority): "The community has an odd and not clearly understood or perhaps well-conceived constitutional requirement for an AGM by means of electronic assembly to reach a quorum of 1/3 of members, although it's not clear what we'll all do in such a meeting; nevertheless, please follow the steps below to join the IRC channel sometime before (end date) and register your pulse there. Before the next round of elections we will clarify the requirements and intent of this constitutional requirement." Cheers Gavin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3249 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20080303/1d17bb9c/attachment.bin>
