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Roll Call
- Attendees: John Poelstra, Matt Domsch, Paul Frields, Mike McGrath, Chris Tyler, Colin Walters
Working Group Kick-off
- Set ground rules for our meetings going forward
- Start on time/be early
- Communicate in advance if you will not attend so we don't have to go searching for/pinging people in vain
- Everyone helps with meeting notes
- Everyone leaves the meeting with an action item or something to bring back next time--we aren't leaving everything to one person
- Meetings will last 60 minutes or less
- John Poelstra will act as the meeting facilitator with permission to:
- keep the meetings moving
- make sure the meeting ends on time
- publish meeting minutes
- suggest ownership of tasks (among group members)
- We will make decisions by consensus
- Meaning--everyone agrees enough to support the proposal, even if not everyone is wild about the idea
- The term decision is used in the context of our working group discusions--not deciding things for the board, Fedora, etc.
- Start on time/be early
- Our discussions in these meetings are to:
- pull together past unresolved issues while not solving them
- bring loose items together into formulated proposals the board as a whole can discuss and approve
- Initial work will be cataloging all of the issues
- Proposing (not dictating) solutions will be a follow-up step
- Send cataloged list to advisory-board for sanity check to make sure we've collected (not solved) everything
Meeting Outcomes
- Finished in 57 minutes (3 minutes early)
- Emphasis of meeting was on setting up structure and how we plan to work issues through
- Decided on initial approach:
- Catalog all the issues we understand to have been raised as questions
- Break cataloged issues into two groups:
- Issues we believe are resolved with a reference to where and how it was resolved
- Issues we believe are unanswered with references to our to-do list
- Explain in plain terms why the working group and the Board are pursuing these issues
- Catalog initiatives the board has started, but not clearly resolved
- For example, website redesign, Chris Aillon's proposal, Spot's Proposal, Persona's, etc.
- The rest of the meeting we worked as a group cataloging the issues the board is grappling with
Other Observations/Side Discussion
- Is there a disconnect between what the community thinks the board should do, and what the board thinks the board should do. Dominant views seem to be:
- dispute mediators
- looking out for Fedora's feature
- If the community does not agree with the Board's charter they may not agree with its actions
- Current board charter: Board#Responsibilities
Agenda for Next Meeting
- Be ready to publish the list of resolved and unresolved issues to advisory-board list for sanity check
- Explain why this working group and the Board are pursuing these issues
- Catalog open initiatives
Next Meeting
- Monday, January 25, 2010 @ 15:00 EST