Hi,
On Wed, 2019-05-15 at 18:08 -0700, philip chimento gmail com wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:11 AM Benjamin Berg <benjamin sipsolutions net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 22:30 -0700, Philip Chimento via foundation-
> > list
> > wrote:
> > > * Philip: Everyone please read this, we'll discuss it again in the
> > > next meeting. As suggested in Allan's comments, I can split the parts
> > > that are more of interest to Foundation members into a wiki page.
> >
> > Is the proposed policy fully available to foundation members for review
> > and/or as a reference at this point in time?
>
> It's not a policy. It's an informal guideline for the board members,
> suggesting what standards the minutes should meet, and a procedure
> for approving the minutes of the previous meeting at the start of
> each meeting.
>
> […] The remaining board guideline part is honestly not going to be
> very interesting unless you like parliamentary procedure, but will be
> put on a wiki page as well when the board members agree on it.
And I am very much interested in reviewing those. We had longer
discussions in the relevant tickets and so far I had not gotten the
impression that the Board has addressed the issue of missing meeting
minutes adequately. I do have a real hope that these documents will
improve the situation a lot for the future, and I am very much
interested in doing a review. Ideally before the Board votes on them.
Sure, I have pinged people about it to get things moving again. I personally am going on vacation tomorrow and will check what the progress is when I get back next week. The goal is to put both online before the end of the board term.
But just to be clear, it's not a policy, and I don't believe the board is planning to vote on it. The wiki page is an explanatory wiki page which we will be happy to answer questions about, but is not going to represent any change from the status quo. The other document is basically a guideline for the board saying "approve the previous meeting's minutes at the start of each meeting, define a procedure by which corrections are to be made, and make sure to delegate the publishing of the minutes to someone else if the secretary hasn't been able to do it by then." As a fairly minor procedural change to the board meetings, it's not something we'd seek review or input on.
