OGB Actions April 23, 2009
Present:
Michelle Olson
John Plocher
JBeck
Jim Walker
Valerie Bubb Fenwick
Mark Martin - auditing
Deirdré Straughan, secretary
Apologies:
Simon Phipps (dialed in last half hour)
Peter Tribble
Procedural
Town Hall
discussion of the presentation MO had prepared for the town hall, agreed to remove the term “mission statement”
Scheduling Face-to-face OGB meeting at CommunityOne West (June 1, 2009)
OGB will meet F2F at C1 West.
- ACTION ITEM - DS to find a room.
A town hall also proposed, and a request to have a feedback wall at venue.
AI Review
PT to confirm he will be at C1 West in June. (done)
MO to request Vincent to join our next meeting. (done)
MO & DS to 1:1 for Secretary TOI. (1st meeting done, need one more to complete)
JP to look into a way to turn on/off archival setting on pages for agenda. (done)
DS to look into recordings for her own use. (not done)
MO to re-cast roles & priorities idea. - ?
New policy for granting core contributor grants
VB working on new policy for granting core contributor grants, requests that new grants be held until this is completed. Agreement on need NOT to hold up pending grants unless the delay is brief.
Review of last week's actions
Discussion of 2008-01 attitude/mission statement in that first draft of town hall slides.
Vote taken on updated text (including PT's additions, shown in bold on the wiki), passed unanimously by those present and PT's email vote.
OGB Policy pertaining to the Constitution
MO motion to rescind with replacement, JW rescind without. PT change considerably or replace with something different.
Need to consider two new pieces of data:
- Bonnie's email saying “We had to decide to go with old constitution on website implementation, there will be no time for re-implementation before the end of the current term.”
- SP points out that we don't know what the future will hold, so we are motivated to get a new constitution in place that reflects our values.
Agreement to continue with current “safety valve” approach: work around the constitution where necessary (because as written it blocks needed action), while drafting new legislation to cover that particular need in the expectation that this will be passed in a future election.
Agreement to table discussion on this.
Phipps: Motion to rescind OGB_2008/005 Proposal on OGB activity/issue naming, tracking and archival and modify the procedures associated with OGB_2008/004 Regular meetings of the OGB.
- also tabled
APPROVED: Tribble: Motion to add structure to the agenda described in OGB 2008/004/2009_Procedures Regular meetings of the OGB, 2009 Procedures
Current Items
Discussion of OGB calendar, agreement to put OGB events (e.g. meetings, town halls) on there, plus events at which a significant number of OGB members will be present (e.g., C1), but not events at which an OGB member is simply a speaker or attendee.
Other tabled items from last week: agreement to leave them tabled for lack of time.
OGB Suggestion wiki
More content to be added by JW, to be voted on next week.
Item “Priority poll to the community [related to priority of revisiting the constitution], suggestion box, postitnotes... “ removed because it was decided to use the suggestion box.
ACTION ITEM: (MO) logistics email to decide a time for F2F and town hall (F2F preferably before town hall)