I have two other items: 1) Marketing Report: I don't need any meeting time to discuss. I have solicited proposals for a consultant to develop our CMP (Core Messaging Platform).
2) Foundation Bylaws: number of directors and sustaining members In past discussions, the board had decided that the size of the board and the number of sustaining members would be determined by the community board members. This does not look like what is in the proposed bylaw changes. This would allow us to add additional sustaining members as well as additional community seats to maintain the ratio of community to sustaining member votes. This of course would lead to a larger board size which has the benefit of additional revenue and influence for the foundation, but challenges in running board meetings. As others have pointed out and I agree with, the board is already on the large size for effective board meetings. In previous discussions we concluded that more of the work would move to committees and that the board would have more of an oversight role. I would like to propose if the board grows to a larger size, that the board elect an executive committee that would meet on a more regular basis to execute Foundation initiatives that are not covered by other board committees. I think this clears the way for the Foundation to discuss PayPal joining the board. -- Dick On 7-Apr-08, at 11:17 AM, Scott Kveton wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Here is the agenda for our next call: > > * General business (minutes approved, finance update) > * Membership committee update - Bill > * Local chapter update - Mike > * Update on other open foundation work - DeWitt > * Additional items? > > Call-in number provided by IBM - Tony Nadalin > > Time: 11am PST > TOLL: 517-386-9613 > LDR: 7474731 > PPC: 7637961 > > - Scott > _______________________________________________ > board mailing list > [email protected] > http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board > > _______________________________________________ board mailing list [email protected] http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/board
