On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 03:35:29PM -0600, Sean Figgins wrote: > For the general conference, I agree that it does not always need to have > transcripts. But as the community meeting is likely the place where > corporate business is being discussed, this needs to be reviewable at a > later date I do not know it this is a legal requirement at all, but I > know that most incorporated organizations I have participated in have > pretty decent transcripts or minutes from their business meetings.
As the former recording secretary for a national 501(c)(3) organization, my best understanding (and good lord, I'm not an attorney) is that it's somewhere between "required" and "a very good idea". One obstacle to that (which applied in my case and may apply here) is that the specialized vocabulary and numerous acronyms may make it difficult for an outsourced transcriber to achieve sufficient accuracy; it thus may be better for the position of "recording secretary" to exist and to be charged with producing just such transcripts. (Which should be reviewed by attendees and marked up with their corrections -- that is, in a fashion which shows who corrected what. This [mostly] removes the room for future allegations that X said "blah blah" in a meeting but then subsequently (ab)used the correction process to change it.) ---rsk _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
