On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:00:49PM -0700, Ben Rockwood wrote: > OGB Meetings should be open, but in any meeting its irregular for > observers to be involved. By that rationale I would suggest that so > long as actual dialog of the meeting, unedited, is available for public > review it fits the criteria for "open meeting". Making an audio > recording of the meeting available following each would be something I'd > appreciate.
Most governing body meetings have a time set aside after business is concluded for non-actionable questions from the audience. This might be nice to provide. It's unclear to me whether providing a recording would satisfy the letter of section 6.7; it depends on the definitions of 'participate' and 'attend.' This does seem like a good idea anyway, since not everyone is likely to be able to attend live even if the technical problems were solved. > calls have always worked well. The only definitive > advantage/disadvantage of IRC is that if you say something stupid its > down on record for eternity with little room for later back peddling. Which is true of an audio recording as well. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
