Re: Agenda for board meeting on July 18th

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 18/07/2014, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> 2014-07-18 15:26 GMT+02:00 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro gnome org>:
>
> > 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
>
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