On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 7:44 PM Griselda Cuevas <g...@google.com.invalid> wrote:
> To the point of no calls... > > How does the board meet and make decisions? That's a very fair question. The board practice is to assemble all of the reports, suggested motions etc days and sometimes weeks before the synchronous meeting. That meeting is recorded with minutes for dissemination for everyone who isn't attending. Less the <private>redacted</privated> bits, these are approved a month or two later and published openly for the record. We can all ready 20 years of them here; http://apache.org/foundation/board/calendar.html There is almost nothing presented to the board that wasn't already before them and the membership for some significant time in advance, so the inclusiveness aspect is satisfied. Now, as an operating board, these aren't truly "public" discussions, only officers and members, who number over 700, have any visibility into some early discussion. But many matters which are brought to the board's attention arise from discussions which are public on various -dev and discuss lists, and corresponding votes on committee internal discussion lists. Ultimately and to an outgoing AU board participant's frustration, the meetings are synchronous and set comfortably in a US timezone. But this is mostly a side-effect of US corporate governance, there was no "accepted" framework for async electronic meetings at the time the foundation was created. Effectively, the board isn't going to pop any surprise on the membership, because their agenda was laid out days and often months in advance on the mailing lists, votes had been taken by project committees, and comments on business before them are already received.
