On Feb 19, 2008 12:50 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > I obviously have a rough idea what is expected given my background, > > IMO, one of the problems with the current OGB is that they > don't/can't spend enough time on the job. Trying to do > everything that is needed in 1 hour per week doesn't work > and is doing a disservice to the community.
The current OGB members may only spend one hour a week meeting "normally"; (lately I know that they have several other meetings so that one hour has stretched into several per week). However, based on past commentary, it would appear that much of their time is just spent trying to keep up with the torrent of information that this community produces. I have heard that this is a significant amount of time. A person could spend all day doing nothing but trying to stay on top of all of the things happening in the community (especially on mailing lists). Perhaps this is an area where the facilitators for each CG need to be responsible for providing the summaries of their activities to the OGB on a more frequent basis so that the OGB can focus on being a legislative body with great responsibility; instead of list moderators on top of a insurmountable mountain of responsibility. Just my perspective, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
