Re: Board public IRC meetings - was (Re: A question for the candidates)

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

I meant "not getting board meeting MINUTES" below. Sorry.

On 05/28/2012 11:44 AM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> On 05/28/2012 05:59 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > Unless we
> > had an interesting agenda item (e.g. future of the Desktop Summit),
> > people didn't attend. I assume it's because they didn't have anything
> > pressing to say.
>
> I have made an effort to attend those meetings and my problems at the
> times were numerous:
> - meetings badly announced if ever. Maybe making use of foundation
> mailing list and planet gnome systematically would help to get more people)
> - agenda not defined and seldom in line with what the board was
> discussing at the time. Not getting board meetings didn't help for sure
> - when questions were asked we would usually get "of XXXX is not here so
> we don't know" or "oh, this is confidential so we cannot tell you".
>
> Trust that after a while you quickly lose your motivation to attend.
>
> I believe IRC meeting are an important part of the board communicating
> to its community and an effort must be made to announce and run those
> meetings regularly. Adding items to the agenda that the board is working
> on at the time will also definitely help raise attendance as well.
>
> Just the feeling of one foundation member.
>
> Fred
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