On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 03:42:55PM -0700, John Poelstra wrote: > >My second observation about the minutes are that board decisions are > >announced collectively. This is actually something I pushed for when we first formed the Board. While there is discussion, debate, and a healthy exchange of viewpoints, in the end, when a decision _is_ made, it reflects the view of the Board as a whole, nearly always by concensus. Individuals on the Board may of course speak in public about their views on various points and topics, speaking for themselves, but I don't want "the Board" decisions to become a US Supreme Court-style 5-4 decision with dissenters writing their own dissent. Decisions exceedingly rarely break this way in practice that I've seen, and it only serves to polarize. IMHO. This is also why, in general, the current FPL publishes Board decisions. Regardless of the debate, we're still friends who can work together for a common good, and I feel we need to present a common, non-polarizing front, which I think we've done a good job at. > At what point is the cost too high? My own measure is the amount of time > to create the minutes exceeds the length of the meeting. This is my concern. While I enjoy the IRC meetings, we cover fewer topics, in less detail, than we do in concalls. Summarizing concalls is hard work; summarizing with even more detail - ugg. John has done an admirable job at this, kudos to him. -Matt _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
