Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AOB items aren't made visible to the membership in general. > > Really? I know about epsilon's worth of US corporation governance, but > here in Finland all AOB items are noted in the minutes.
That's only in the *minutes* - not visible in advance and members will have no notice until the minutes are published. According to http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/minutes that means we would soon find out what items happened in February (which I believe are approved but unlinked), far too late to influence things like SPI elections. I know that I've been emailing the meeting logs in 2008, but they're unofficial and not linked from the main website, I doubt many members are reading spi-general and you shouldn't expect me to do this forever. The board really ought to be capable of publishing routine communications efficiently, but even if they do, it's usually going to be a month before the minutes are published in the normal manner. Actually, I'm near disbelief that SPI still doesn't have a coherent website or send emails on time, but maybe you knew that from my election promises. All of the main reasons people don't join SPI are our misfiring marketing, really. See http://www.news.software.coop/spi-meeting-tonight-and-why-people-dont-join-spi/44/ What are the board doing to fix this? Burying stuff under AOB?!? > I agree with Joerg and Joshua that AOB is *the* place for news and > notifications that don't require long discussions. *Reports* are the place for low-discussion no-decision items. Using AOB for news or notifications is silly due to the publication-lag. > [..] AOB is more pertinent for meetings between > people who don't use email extensively. Which isn't really the case here, is it? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
