On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 06:06 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On 28 May 2012 05:03, Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org> wrote: > > On 05/28/2012 07:29 AM, Tobias Mueller wrote: > >> > >> ne doesn't know what is happening and thus > >> being able to take influence. So I would try to have the minutes > sent > >> around ASAP. But as far as I could see, nobody was suffering enough > yet > >> to publicly ask whether it'd be possible to make things more > (timely) > >> public. > > > > Again I guess we were spoiled by former board secretary in the > previous > > years who was automatically emailing the meeting notes 2 weeks after > the > > meeting. This year (2011-2012) minutes were published as follows: > > - Meeting of July 26, 2011 -> publish on August 23rd : 1 month later > > - Meeting of August 9th, 2011 -> published on October 18th: 2+ month > later > > (publish together with 4 other meeting minutes). > > yes, this is my definite fault. > > [just a bit of backstory, here, also to help out eventual other > candidates in case I'm not elected] the meeting minutes are written > down during the meeting itself by using a collaborative editor, so > that everyone on the meeting can actually review in real time what's > being written (this also helps in case I could not hear or understand > what was being said, or when I am talking about some topic/action > item, in which case I cannot really take notes). > > after the meeting is over, the minute is published on the Foundation's > restricted wiki space, for further review, in case I missed a private > section, or I was being overzealous with one, as well as for clearing > up some of the action items. > > after some time pass, the wiki page for the minutes is copied over to > the public section of the Foundation's wiki space, and the contents > are sent using an email. > > none of this is automated: Brian was "just" exceptionally good at > sending out minutes every two weeks. :-) Indeed. That is the reason I blamed myself for not pestering for making them public (and not you). It was also your first term as director and secretary. If you become re-elected and keep the role as secretary, I will set a recurrent activity in my calendar to pester you every other week :-) -- Germán Póo-Caamaño http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/
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