[Strategic] The workload of OSMF

[Kai Krueger]

On 05/11/2011 10:25 AM, Steve Coast wrote:
> There's a lot that doesn't go in the minutes for a start guys. Go 
> spend some time on a board :-)
Having more complete minutes might be easier to achieve than having 
everyone "spend some time on the board"... ;-)

Would it be possible to have a full recording of the meetings like SWG 
does with their irc logs? This would be the least amount of effort to 
improve the minutes and would give everyone who wishes a more complete 
picture of what the board does.

Kai
>
> 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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