[Osmf-talk] Continuity

[Jinal Foflia]

Hello,

Speaking for myself, this meeting would start at 3 am Singapore time, even
though I manage to attend, I would not be able to guarantee it being
productive because of the lack of attention. I usually run through the
minutes to understand the topics that have been discussed. Maybe one of the
options to consider is to have these meetings at an earlier time to have
possible participation from the Asian communities or have it at alternate
times so we can try including participants from the different time-zones

Cheers,
Jinal Foflia


On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 12:17 AM Joost Schouppe <joost at osmfoundation.org>
wrote:

> 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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