Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th
On 18/07/2014, Andrea Veri wrote: > 2014-07-18 15:26 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro : > >> On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> > I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss >> > any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the >> > agenda for the following meeting at any time. >> >> Could you please discuss how the new board will be publishing meeting >> minutes; in particular, the timeliness of publication. >> > > Hey Michael! > > as Ekaterina correctly pointed out we'll be discussing and electing the new > officers very soon. That means a new secretary will be in charge of taking > meeting minutes and publishing them within one or two week from the meeting > as per [1]. > > I would like to remember everyone being on the Board is not a paid position > and it may happen the secretary or any other officer might not be able to > perform a certain action in the prescribed timeline. What I can assure you > is we'll do our best to publish the meeting minutes as soon as possible! I feel that being on the board is a commitment to making the time to fultil the basic duties of a board member, which includes for officers to do their job. If a board member is does not have the time to fill one of those positions, then they should clearly not put themselves forward for it. This is why I pointed out that non-board members of the Foundation can run for the positions as well, especially as I know that many of the membership have been frustrated with the publication of minutes and agendas. > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard > > -- > Cheers, > > Andrea > > Debian Developer, > Fedora / EPEL packager, > GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, > GNOME Foundation Board of Directors member, > GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman > > Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th
On 18/07/2014, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss >> any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the >> agenda for the following meeting at any time. > > Could you please discuss how the new board will be publishing meeting > minutes; in particular, the timeliness of publication. The minutes should currently be published within two weeks of the meeting and the agenda at least two days before the meeting.[1] I am guessing that you don't want the targets to change, but for them to actually be achieved. For reference, at the last GUADEC meeting, the board chose to have a vice-secretary to help achieve the targets, but this did not seem to help much. I will make sure that whoever steps up for the jobs is aware of how much work this involves and I am willing to volunteer myself as a tertiary backup as I have published agendas and minutes before, and taken minutes at meetings. Unfortunately, my time is finite and the treasurer position already takes more work than any of the others so I don't think that I would be an effective president/chair or secretary while acting as the treasurer. (As should be clear by now, I am running for treasurer again.) [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard#Roles_and_Responsibilities > Thanks. > ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th
2014-07-18 15:26 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro : > On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > > I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss > > any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the > > agenda for the following meeting at any time. > > Could you please discuss how the new board will be publishing meeting > minutes; in particular, the timeliness of publication. > Hey Michael! as Ekaterina correctly pointed out we'll be discussing and electing the new officers very soon. That means a new secretary will be in charge of taking meeting minutes and publishing them within one or two week from the meeting as per [1]. I would like to remember everyone being on the Board is not a paid position and it may happen the secretary or any other officer might not be able to perform a certain action in the prescribed timeline. What I can assure you is we'll do our best to publish the meeting minutes as soon as possible! [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, GNOME Foundation Board of Directors member, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th
On 2014-07-18 09:26, Michael Catanzaro wrote: On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the agenda for the following meeting at any time. Could you please discuss how the new board will be publishing meeting minutes; in particular, the timeliness of publication. I actually just added the election of officers to the agenda - we'll add this to the discussion of the Secretary position karen ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th
On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 14:12 +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss > any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the > agenda for the following meeting at any time. Could you please discuss how the new board will be publishing meeting minutes; in particular, the timeliness of publication. Thanks. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Agenda for board meeting on July 18th
Hello Foundation members! The next board meeting is on July 18th at 16:00 UTC. This is the agenda: * Finalizing the meeting time for the new Board * Monthly financial update * Monthly update * Planned spending * GNOME.Asia reimbursements * Accessibility campaign * Groupon update * Events * GUADEC 2014 * GNOME.Asia * Agenda for advisory board meeting at GUADEC * Receiving Donations in the EU via the WHS * Update on the GANDI discounts as an additional benefit for GNOME Foundation members I would like to remind you that if you would like the board to discuss any issues at a meeting, you are welcome to request additions to the agenda for the following meeting at any time. The new board will shortly be choosing officers to fill the following positions: president/chairman, vice-president/chairman, secretary, vice-secretary and treasurer. These positions are normally filled by board members, but applications are also open to the membership. - Kat ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
