hey folks, two things that have happened in the past couple of days that concern me
the first is that a board report was prepared and sent to the board by the Chair without any input from the committee. (Gris acknowledged this a separate follow-up email she sent to dev@diversity) SIDE NOTE: I am subscribed to board@ but I didn't receive the original copy of the board report. so I am wondering which list it was sent to. perhaps I have a misconfigured email client? ANOTHER SIDE NOTE: it is generally a good idea to copy dev@ when sending the report to board@. that way, there is no need to send an additional followup notification to dev@diversity my second concern is that I learned about a proposed D&I budget request only because Jim copied in the private@diversity list on a thread that seems to have been started on opperations@ (to which I am not subscribed) we had a brainstorming thread about our budget request last month, but to the best of my knowledge, there has been no chance for the committee to work on the actual proposal that was sent. I have seen no emails about it, no draft text, no requests for review, etc as far PMCs are concerned, Chairs (who also serve as the VP of the respective project) are not "project leaders". they function as an elected representative of the committee to the board and are responsible for foundation-level admin but they do not hold any special decision-making power above-and-beyond a regular committee member cf. https://couchdb.apache.org/bylaws.html#chair we are not a PMC, though. so I am not sure how things are meant to operate with this committee. (this is one of the reasons I suggested that we draft some bylaws that would clarify this sort of thing) I think that we should operate the way that a standard PMC does. that is, decisions are made on-list, *by the committee*, and the Chair (i.e., VP D&I) has the primary function of interfacing with the board apologies, Gris, if we're on the same page and these were both just procedural oversights!! most new committees have teething troubles and there's no reason we should be any different. but I figure this is an important issue and one we should get clarity on as early as possible
