[Strategic] The workload of OSMF

[Steve Coast]

There's a lot that doesn't go in the minutes for a start guys. Go spend 
some time on a board :-)

On 5/11/2011 1:06 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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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