John Plocher wrote:
> I would like the OGB members to collaborate with each other to produce
> the following reports for the OS.o Membership, and to do so
> before the March 18th opening of nominations for next year's board:
I would like someone to hire the OGB an admin to deal with stuff like this,
since if you expect us to produce long reports on everything, it'll take us
away from getting anything else resolved.
> 1) A list of actions taken/projects completed by the OGB during
> this term and a list of open/uncompleted activities that will
> be passed off to the next board.
See the minutes.
> 4) A schedule + associated logistics for the required Annual Meeting
> of Members where the above can be discussed. My reading of the
> constitution says that this meeting is more than simply the
> election scheduled to be hosted on poll.os.o, in that it needs
> to allow "all persons [to] hear or read each others' comments at
> the same time", and not be delayed by email delivery latencies:
>
> 5.1. Place of Meetings.
> Meetings of the Members shall be held via a shared electronic
> communication medium, such as Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or an
> equivalent medium for shared communication, by means of which
> all persons participating in the meeting can hear or read each
> others' comments at the same time. Participating by such means
> shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.
>
> 5.2. Annual Meeting.
> A meeting of the Members shall be held annually at such time as
> the OGB may determine (which shall be, in the case of the first
> annual meeting, not more than thirteen (13) months after
> ratification of this Constitution and, in the case of all other
> meetings, not more than thirteen (13) months after the date of
> the last annual meeting), at which annual meeting the Members
> shall elect an OGB and transact other proper business.
Hrm, I hadn't noticed that requirement before. I can't imagine it will
be anything other than extremely painful though.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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