Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-05 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Sun, Feb 05, 2012 at 11:56:09AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote: > Jonathan, please add the item "Discussion of back office support" to > the February meeting agenda. I believe this should fall within > general business but don't mind if you put it in another category. > > My intention here is fo

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-05 Thread Henrik Ingo
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Robert Brockway wrote: >> I was at one point involved with another nonprofit that used this kind of >> service. That nonprofit ended up moving those man-hours to in-house >> volunteer board members because it wasn't cost-effective for their needs. >> Although every

Re: Agenda item for February SPI board meeting

2012-02-05 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: One thought first on discussing this in the meeting: we should probably have a predetermined time limit for this item, since discussions are Yes fair enough. I find that having a real time discussion with all or most directors present is a useful wa