John Plocher wrote: > 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] >
Thank you very much, John, for noticing the Annual Meeting. I have some additional research to do before I bring it to the board for action and several other items that come before this, but this is definitely something we've got to get hopping on. Last night I started jotting down some notes on it, so its not forgotten. I have #2 above as a discussion item and potential motion for the next call. Items #1 and #3 are similar to an approved motion I put forth quite some time ago but that was "resolved" by simply updating the minutes. I plan to resurrect that request myself, but going back through all the minutes and recordings will take quite a while so I wouldn't expect a result in the next 2 weeks. If anyone feels this important item is slipping feel free to poke me with a stick. benr.
