On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 06:11 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net>
> wrote:
> > ... snip ...
> > >>  what about recording how board members vote
> > >> on a given topic. This includes +1 / -1 / abstains and perhaps give a
> > >> small comment on any -1 or abstain.
> > >
> > > Stormy brought this up last year, to a number of individual members of
> > > the Board, but we failed to put it in place. It places a large strain
> on
> > > the minute taker though, so I guess we'll have to see the
> technicalities
> > > of implementing it.
> >
> > Perhaps there is a way some of this could be automated? Brian does a
> > great job of keeping insanely detailed minutes, but I fear anything
> > with a bus factor of exactly 1. This would be greatly enhanced if more
> > of the meetings (not saying all of them mind you) were in IRC. There
> > could even be an application that helps tally the votes and whatnot. I
> > dunno, but this is not an insurmountable problem. Again... where
> > possible, the Board should set the example for openness just like when
> > GNOME set the example for openness before QT was free software.
>
> I didn't say that some sort of automation couldn't be implemented, just
> that it hasn't yet. Volunteers more than welcome.
>
> Right now, the note taking is done through a gobby instance. Given that
> gedit has collaboration tools, and support for some versions of gobby
> server, it could be done through a custom plugin. Would be a neat trick.
>
>
I am happy to help record votes in Gobby.

But if someone is going to spend time automating something, please, please,
please help automate the financial stuff. Paypal, gnucash and our Friends of
GNOME system really needs to be integrated. Several people have looked at it
but it's still a very tedious, manual process that takes a lot of Rosanna
and German's time.

Stormy
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