On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Simon Phipps wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2009, at 00:16, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: >> >> Today's agenda was full of policies to consider for our term, which will >> dictate >> how the OGB acts wrt to everything we do going forward. Unfortunately, we >> didn't >> have enough folks to get definitive votes on many items today (several were >> split >> 50/50), so their back on the agenda for next Thursday. >> >> I think we need to do those *first* and then we can continue our discussion >> on >> priorities. > > Right, understood as a pragmatic & temporary matter. > > Concerning strategy, I'm asserting that we have a very clear priority to get > the almost-finished constitution iterated & ratified so the new work we do > fits it. I'm unhappy that it's been pushed off the agenda, onto a > "priorities" discussion and with the implication that the outcome of that > discussion itself will get tested by a future "poll" - effectively procedural > cancellation of the discussion. This is wasting time as well as wasting the > work of the previous Board, and I want to hear clearly from the OGB who it is > wants that waste and why.
Hi Simon - I realize you couldn't make the meeting today, but this was discussed. I don't think anyone is planning on wasting time. My idea for a poll was floated in *last* week's OGB meeting, I don't recall anyone saying it was a terrible idea. In fact, I thought everyone was on board with it. If you don't want to run a poll, just say so, but please do not imply that I'm attempting to derail work on the constitution by suggesting we see what the community wants us to work on. In today's meeting, we decided to forgo a poll and move forward with a suggestion box, to help us identify areas we may be missing that people want us to work on. Nobody implied we would do this at the exclusion of working on the constitution. The only point of contention, that I'm aware of, is whether we run a special election for the new constitution or wait until the next general election. I think we have many other issues to work out before we even get to that point. Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
