I would like the OGB members to collaborate with each other to produce
the following reports for the OS.o Membership, and to do so
before the March 18th opening of nominations for next year's board:
1) A list of actions taken/projects completed by the OGB during
this term and a list of open/uncompleted activities that will
be passed off to the next board.
2) A status update/resolution on the Branding/Trademark/
Indiana/OpenSolaris discussions that have been going on in
OGB-private for over a month now.
3) A set of observations and recommendations that can be used as the
basis for community improvement and/or constitutional amendments.
What worked and what needs to be improved? How will the
discussions above impact the community?
4) A schedule + associated logistics for the required Annual Meeting
of Members where the above can be discussed. My reading of the
constitution says that this meeting is more than simply the
election scheduled to be hosted on poll.os.o, in that it needs
to allow "all persons [to] hear or read each others' comments at
the same time", and not be delayed by email delivery latencies:
5.1. Place of Meetings.
Meetings of the Members shall be held via a shared electronic
communication medium, such as Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or an
equivalent medium for shared communication, by means of which
all persons participating in the meeting can hear or read each
others' comments at the same time. Participating by such means
shall constitute presence in person at a meeting.
5.2. Annual Meeting.
A meeting of the Members shall be held annually at such time as
the OGB may determine (which shall be, in the case of the first
annual meeting, not more than thirteen (13) months after
ratification of this Constitution and, in the case of all other
meetings, not more than thirteen (13) months after the date of
the last annual meeting), at which annual meeting the Members
shall elect an OGB and transact other proper business.
[Note the last sentence]
-John
