Re: Questions for all board candidates

[Pockey Lam <pockeylam gnome org>]

On 05/26/2011 08:43 PM, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> 1.) For incumbents, have you missed any meetings? What is your % of
> missed vs attended meetings and why? For new challengers, how much
> time can you dedicate to working on the board each week? How do you
> plan on spending that time?
>
> 2.) Other open source / free software projects run their meetings in
> the open via IRC (such as Fedora's FESCO I believe). Would you
> consider that, and if not, what about recording how board members vote
> on a given topic. This includes +1 / -1 / abstains and perhaps give a
> small comment on any -1 or abstain. In my opinion, as an open
> foundation, the transparency of the board is absolutely critical
> _where possible_. Leaders should always set the example for members.

While I agree with Lionel about performance not being time based I also 
know from experience that you need time to be on the board of any 
organization. Those who have worked with me either on GNOME.Asia Summit 
or for Software Freedom Day where I am also a board member know that my 
job allows me to put the required time when necessary and that I am not 
afraid of spending my weekends on Free Software.  I believe a lot of 
time can be saved with good anticipation and preparation (rather than 
doing things at the last minute) and for the remaining part I can surely 
give 2 full working days a week (2x 8hours) on a regular basis with 
extras when needed.

Transparency is an important concern to me. I do believe we should be 
accountable for our decision and that those should be documented. I find 
the foundation has been doing a rather good job so far but since you are 
not the only person raising this point maybe this is something we should 
look at improving. At this stage I agree that phone meetings are more 
efficient in general and the meeting notes provided by Brian so far have 
been very thorough. So maybe we could use the foundation IRC meetings to 
clarify points which are perceived to be not so clear? I am definitely 
opened for suggestions on those issues.

Pockey

> Thankyou for your time and consideration.