[Foundation-l] Board Minutes, August 24-25

2009-10-28 Thread Kat Walsh
Minutes from the August 2009 (Wikimania) board meeting -- approved October 2009. (We are still experimenting with the style, and the next set of minutes will likely be a bit less of a direct transcription and more of a summary; please feel free to comment on what would be useful.) Link to wiki ve

Re: [Foundation-l] board minutes

2008-12-14 Thread effe iets anders
Hi all, Yes, I know that in large organizations it is uncommon to approve minutes by email. I however see no fundamental obstacles myself, but I'd love to hear from them if they are there. Please note that "commonness" is no argument to me in this case. I understand how we got to the current situa

Re: [Foundation-l] board minutes

2008-12-14 Thread Ting Chen
The chair of the board, Michael, had posted the topics before the meeting and a short report about resolutions and issues discussed after the meeting. Ting Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:49 AM, effe iets anders > wrote: > > >> From Sue's report, I understood that the current prac

Re: [Foundation-l] board minutes

2008-12-14 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2008/12/14 Anthony : > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:49 AM, effe iets anders > > wrote: > > > >> From Sue's report, I understood that the current practice is to have > board > >> minutes approved only on the next board meeting. In practice tha

Re: [Foundation-l] board minutes

2008-12-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/14 Anthony : > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:49 AM, effe iets anders > wrote: > >> From Sue's report, I understood that the current practice is to have board >> minutes approved only on the next board meeting. In practice that means a >> delay of several months. In a quickly changing world as o

Re: [Foundation-l] board minutes

2008-12-14 Thread Anthony
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:49 AM, effe iets anders wrote: > From Sue's report, I understood that the current practice is to have board > minutes approved only on the next board meeting. In practice that means a > delay of several months. In a quickly changing world as ours, that is quite > a long t

Re: [Foundation-l] board minutes

2008-12-14 Thread Ting Chen
Hello Effe, I think this is a good suggestion. I will put it on the next meeting at the second weekend of the new year. Ting effe iets anders wrote: > >From Sue's report, I understood that the current practice is to have board > minutes approved only on the next board meeting. In practice that

[Foundation-l] board minutes

2008-12-14 Thread effe iets anders
>From Sue's report, I understood that the current practice is to have board minutes approved only on the next board meeting. In practice that means a delay of several months. In a quickly changing world as ours, that is quite a long time span. Would it be possible to decrease this time span someho