[Strategic] The workload of OSMF

[Steve Coast]

Not really, since we discuss sensitive subjects all the time.

On 5/12/2011 9:33 AM, Kai Krueger wrote:
> 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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