[Strategic] The workload of OSMF

[Frederik Ramm]

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