On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Michelle Olson wrote: > Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: >> Hi gang - > > Hi Valerie, > >> >> As a new member to the OGB, I was curious: who should set the initial >> agenda? I was looking at our agenda for this week, and it's pretty much >> last weeks: >> http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/2009_04_30_OGB_Agenda > > Right, John Plocher generally just copies/pastes the previous agenda into the > new page to get us started.
good to know. Thanks, John! :) >> What I'm really asking, is it okay for me to remove/move >> items? > > Yes, thanks for your help to sort it all out, much appreciated. > > >> or should that just be done by the chair/co-chair/secretary? > > I think we can all work together on the agenda and it helps us make more > progress in the meetings because we are familiar with the items before we get > on the call. But, as the Chair, I will always work on the agenda items and > prepare it before each meeting--I am the owner if no one else has time to > help out. And if you feel unsure about an item, feel free to just send it in > email. This seems very reasonable. >> Specifically, I believe "current items" >> * Priority poll to the community [related to priority of revisiting the >> constitution], suggestion box, postitnotes... * Facilitators project >> >> can be removed as the facilitators project is now up & running, >> and we decided to not do a priority poll. > > Agreed, I've removed the facilitators project item. Thank you, >> Also, I'd like to see: >> * Policy on granting core contributor grants >> >> moved to "business" so we can make a decision on >> it so we can start applying it for new grants >> sooner than later. > > Right, OK, do we think we have enough review feedback? If not, we could poll I don't know - what qualifies as "enough"? I heard back, positively, from several people, including some OGB members. Also, I spoke to you and John about it before I sent it, to get ideas for the original wording. So, is that enough? The only "negative" feedback I really got was "this still might not be enough" but nothing along the lines of "this is a waste of time" > the 13 folks who have joined the facilitation-discuss list (a number of them > might have feedback on this policy and how it is to be carried out). If you > think we have enough feedback already, then I think the next step is to > author a formal policy (2009/007) that incorporates any feedback from the > discussion thread and link to that draft from the agenda for voting. So, do we have a place with all of our policies on it? I wasn't sure what number we were up to... >> (I know we can all add, I just wasn't sure about remove/move :) >> >> Finally, who will be moving the approved new policies and removing >> the now defunct ones (as approved by the OGB) on this site: >> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/ > > I've updated the page with links to the newly approved policy 2009/001, > removed the link to 2008/001, and added a link to 2009/003. But, feel free to > help with keeping this page up to date also. Sorry, I haven't had time :( >> I don't recall anyone accepting action to do those updates. >> We should probably make sure that after we vote on anything >> like this that some individual takes action to document it >> in the appropriate place. > > Yep, I guess I assumed this would be part of my responsibilities (or Peter's > when I'm away) in preparation for the upcoming meeting. But, again, please > keep me honest and when you author a policy, link it from this page in the > appropriate section, help out where you see fit, etc. thannk you, Michelle. Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
