[Osmf-talk] Continuity

[Joost Schouppe]

Hi,
Speaking for myself, I only followed one or two meetings before being
elected. I don't see much joy in following a board meeting where you can't
really participate, except with questions at the end. True to Frederik's
point, I don't always enjoy the online Board meetings either. I think it
might be better with video and if there would be no need to mute unless
speaking. But having an online discussion with seven people is always going
to be hard.

While the Board meetings are obviously extremely important, there is much
more time spent on the work in between meetings. Even the until-now yearly
face to face meeting is more time spent together than all the online Board
meetings together. So from my own experience, I do not see it as an issue
with non-participation, and I do not see any improvement necessary.

It might be interesting to have other ways to publicly interact with the
Board in an asynchronous way, as this would deal with timezones and bad
internet connections and temporary personal time constraints. This would
require Board members to speak more often with their own voice, rather than
with a single Board statement. I like that idea, but I'm afraid it might
make Board operations even harder.

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 1:13 PM Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi Allan,
>
> I didn't want to say "you shouldn't stand for board if you haven't
> participated in a board meeting", sorry if it came across like that.
> (Until very recently, that wasn't even an option for people.) Personally
> I was absolutely delighted to see you standing for election and I
> implore you to stay on - I think your skill set is in very high demand
> in OSMF and you've demonstrated your commitment to OSM in a variety of
> ways.
>
> The point I was trying to make is: As a board member you *must*
> participate in meetings, but as a guest this is voluntary; so if people
> don't join as guests but are interested enough to become a board member,
> finding out why that's the case can give us ideas for improvement. For
> example, if bad internet connectivity is an issue for people, we might
> have to switch to a less demanding medium, etc.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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