i apologize in advance if the questions below seem stupid or have already been answered somewhere else.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:03:41AM -0800, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > > 4. New Constitution > The OGB has had a long review period (starting September 2009), > of the new draft for the constitution. We started with last year's > draft and incorporated all of the feedback from the community. > > We believe this new document simplifies and clarifies the community > governance to match our actual practice and realistic expectations. > > This does not require changes to the Charter. > > All members of the OGB unanimously recommend you approve this change. > To succeed this time, we 190 pass votes; your participation is vital. > > Please review the document here: > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/Proposed+Constitution > for those of us that haven't been following the constitution revision process, are there diffs available of proposed changes? > > 5. Meeting of Members > Under the existing Constitution, we have to gather the voting > membership on irc://irc.freenode.net/#opensolaris-meeting from > noon PT Feb 25th until quorum is reached. That means we need > everyone with a Core Contributor grant to join. If you aren't > a core contributor, you are not required to attend, but are > certainly welcome to. > > Please log into the IRC channel and announce yourself in the > format > "Hello, I am <your name> and an OpenSolaris Core Contributor. My OpenSolaris > ID is <your ID>" > > There is a bot monitoring the channel and recording these > announcements as well as all channel discussion. > http://www.spcoast.com/irclogs/opensolaris-meeting > > Feel free to use the IRC channel to ask, or indeed answer, > any questions about the election. The current OGB will > be present throughout the meeting. Current and past > OGB members can be identified as channel operators on > the IRC channel. > > OGB members will be available periodically throughout the > meeting. > > The quorum we need to meet in order for the election to > go forward is 126. > i'm unclear as to what the purpose of this meeting is. (aside from just reaching quorum and optionally being able to ask questions which could just as easily be sent to this email alias.) could someone please clarify why we're having this meeting? ed
