Hi, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > Personally, I think Gavin summed up the problem and a possible solution > well. It's not clear that the current situation has anything to do with > lack of interest in the community or governance. > > When email first came out about the meeting, the subject of the meeting > was not clear and there was no agenda.
Okay, I'll take fault on the email. I used one of the drafts that was posted earlier, and given that no one commented on it, I assume it was ok to post. I've since followed up on that mail trying to further clarify things. > I joined shortly after it initially started. And I watched a lot of > messages about proposed amendments and about nothing in particular. > > I left about about an hour and a half still having no idea what we were > trying to accomplish. As others have explained, we're doing something that we haven't before, and each person's interpretation of what we're supposed to do is entirely different. I agree that it's a monumental waste of everyone's time, though it is a good indication of how few of our current set of Members care about the governance to make me want to push for massive overhaul of our constitution. > I don't know if I was 'counted' while there. Yes. > If we want to meet this quorum requirement we should do as Gavin > suggested: send specific email to the community telling them why their > short participation in this IRC meeting is needed. And provide > specifics about by when people need to be in the 'meeting'. And see > what happens. This is especially hard because none of us have any clue about how to form an agenda on IRC. Due to the global reach of OpenSolaris, it's almost impossible (realistically) to have everyone in the channel at any one time. We talked about having people moderated off by default, but then OGB members need to be there to make sure people have the opportunity of speaking - which again, isn't very feasible. I'm open to ideas on how you organize a similar meeting on IRC, I really am. I've sent a mail to my home Community Group letting people know about the meeting - I hope others do as well. But really, all the details got to core-contrib-discuss - it's just that people aren't taking any notice. Glynn
