Dave
Please compare the current version with the original proposed by Lionel
Laske or yours before the goals were separated from the Vision or the
one proposed by Laura. Do you think that there is wide-spread agreement
on the statement or that there has been no change in the past two
months?
When a motion fails to achieve a second, there is a reason. After
discussion and rewriting, the motion to distribute funds to the mentors
got my
second immediately.
The purpose of the Board meeting is to conduct the business of Sugar
Labs. Note: at the last meeting, the emphasis on voting on a series of
motions
resulted in no report from the Translation Community Manager.
Tony
On 06/05/2016 07:02 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi
On 4 June 2016 at 03:35, Tony Anderson <tony_ander...@usa.net
<mailto:tony_ander...@usa.net>> wrote:
This discussion of procedures misses the point. Board meetings are
not for the purpose of voting yea/nea on motions.
What do you think the purposes of the board meetings are, then?
A majority of the Board members commented on these motions before
the meeting. These comments were consistent with the comments made
at the meeting with a couple of exceptions. We need to come to a
consensus on the motions before they are presented to the Board.
I disagree completely :) This is not a Quaker Meeting House! :)
Consensus is explicitly not required: Motions can pass if 1 board
member is willing to second the motion and 4 affirmative votes
(majority of 7 seats) are made.
With the exception of motions to authorize payments, I don't see
that any of these motions have an urgency that justifies their
being passed immediately nor any harm to Sugar Labs resulting from
their not being passed on June 3.
I suggest you refer to Walter's email to understand the harm that has
been done.
I appreciate the work and enthusiasm that you have brought to the
Vision motion. However, I don't understand your apparent
insensitivity to the obvious fact that these issues are very
important to the community and deserve the time needed to obtain
community understanding and commitment.
You have provided a valuable framework in which to have these
discussions and that is a major contribution. I hope that when the
community discussion has reached consensus on the wording of a
vision statement that you will be happy with the result and proud
of your contribution to it.
The community has had TWO MONTHS to get involved so far. How much time
do you think is needed?
Perhaps I should be drafting a 2017 vision?
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Cheers
Dave
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