Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > I recall a motion that said we should discuss on private (I could be off > > my rocker) but the thing is... the *only* people that can do anything > > about what you are arguing is contributing members. E.g; they are the > > ones that can vote. So -general may consider this noise.
Well, members are auto-subscribed to -private, while everyone on -general is here by choice. Also, while discussions about potential associations happen in -private, this is now an actual association so can be public in -general. Finally, it arise from the meeting log, which was posted here. So this list is fine - how about responding to the point made? > > > > On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 10:13 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > > > For other kinds of resolutions there are of course other isomorphic > > > > > problems. That is why THE MEMBERSHIP MUST BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO > > > > > COMMENT! > > Any thoughts on that? Personally, I've already stated my position: I'd like to see members given the support they need to fulfil their responsibility to oversee SPI. I've offered to help a few times (most recently the website, but that seems to be taking a long time to arrange a meeting to discuss possible action and so on and so forth), but I also think not enough members want me to take more action to support democratic member participation because I wasn't elected when I ran for the board and included that in my platform. Also in my platform, I included suggestions like semi-automated scheduled notice emails, but none of those who were elected have seen fit to steal those ideas. So, the members re-elected these improving-but-off-target board members in preference to me (and in preference to Ian too in 2007), so maybe the membership in general don't want chances to comment? If that's not true, a member could propose reminding the board of the need for notice, or even dismissing some offending board member(s) and see if it gets N seconds. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
