On Apr 15, 2009, at 03:01, Michelle Olson wrote: > I'm fine with the proposed structure and amendments from Simon and > Peter, so we'd have a motion > to vote on the following: > > 'Any OpenSolaris Member may submit items for future agendas between > meetings by request to any OGB member * or the OGB secretary, or * > by posting an agenda item request to ogb-discuss. *OGB Members or > the OGB secretary may add any item on the "future agenda items" list > to the agenda template for the next meeting at any time before the > meeting commences. '*
The difference here depends on whether the "future agenda items" list is a wiki page of its own, or whether it is part of the agenda only. * The agenda should be published before the meeting, and should be edited only by OGB members or the secretary * The "future agenda items" wiki page could, if a separate page, be manipulated by any interested party as long as they herald significant changes on the ogb-discuss list. My database design background in days before the dawn of time taught me that usually any data item should exist in one place only and then be passed by reference. I thus prefer having a "future agenda items" wiki that gets populated by any interested party and from which any item can be promoted to the agenda when any OGB member believes it is sufficiently mature (has been socialised, a motion prepared and is ready for a discussion likely to lead to significant progress or a definitive decision at an OGB meeting). I would thus propose we vote on this procedure: "Any OpenSolaris Member may submit items for future OGB agendas by request to the OGB-Discuss mailing list. Optionally the requestor may also add the item to the "future agenda items" wiki; if they don't, it will be added by the OGB Secretary. OGB Members or the OGB Secretary may add any item on the "future agenda items" list to the agenda template for the next meeting at any time before the meeting commences if they believe those items to be sufficiently mature. "Sufficiently mature" items will: * have been socialised among the OGB, * have a motion or discussion brief prepared on a wiki page, together with a summary of the discussion to date, * be ready for a discussion likely to lead to significant progress or a definitive decision at the OGB meeting." S.
