[Strategic] The workload of OSMF
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Wed May 11 09:06:44 BST 2011
Steven,
On 05/11/11 09:37, Steven Feldman wrote:
> Jo Walsh commented:
>
> Glancing over the OSMF board meeting minutes - meeting weekly, find
> that amazing. For other technical foundation boards, monthly is
> pretty frequent. OKF board meets quarterly...
I think Jo is right, and from what an outsider can see, the weekly OSMF
board meetings seem to consist largely of going through an agenda,
finding that there's no change, and re-scheduling the issue for next time ;)
It seems to me that there is some organisational problem in how OSMF
board works. I'm not assigning any blame or saying someone does
something wrong - I have only the information available from the
minutes, and it seems that there's a disparity between the frequent
meetings and the assumed toll that takes on OSMF members' free time and
what comes out of it.
But if this assessment is correct, then it is fundamentally an OSMF
board problem that can only be solved by OSMF board. It might be
possible that a part-time hire could help, but it is OSMF board that
would need to step up and say: Here, we have this problem, and we've
decided to hire someone to help.
If it comes to un-elected working groups debating how to help the
elected OSMF board do their job better because OSMF board cannot fix
themselves on their own then I think we really have a problem. In that
case, OSMF board shold resign completely, and SWG should ask to be
elected board ;)
Bye
Frederik
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