On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm a big fan of having some of the Board meetings on IRC regularly, > for better transparency and community engagement. And I also think > having the community Q&A section up front is helpful so that community > members aren't held up by other agenda items. Previously the Board > tried a fully open meeting with no enforced protocol to do this. That > meeting ended up being confusing and hard to track, with multiple > overlapping conversations. > > That's not a problem when everyone in the meeting has separate > concerns that can all be handled individually by different people -- > after all, we do it every day in other IRC channels. However, it's > not as effective in the setting of a group meeting whose purpose is to > explore issues, achieve consensus, and make decisions. Clarity is > just as important in the open Q&A portion so the Board members' > positions are clear to the people asking questions, and the community > at large. Therefore, I suggest the Board consider having some sort of > orderly process for taking questions. > > The Board agreed publicly that if needed, the level of order in the > IRC meetings could be increased incrementally to make them more > effective. Here is how I'd propose to escalate that level, one > meeting at a time, stopping when things seem to work OK: > > 1. Avoid using VOICE, and employ a self-regulated meeting protocol > like our Ambassadors do in their regional meetings (!/?/eof/+1): > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/IRCHowTo#Protocol > > 2. Bring in a non-Board moderator to facilitate the above process, > through gentle reminders to participants. > > 3. Have the non-Board moderator employ VOICE to facilitate the > meeting. http://moderator.appspot.com/ ? [FLOSS alternatives at http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2010/04/21/alternatives-to-google-moderator/ ? ] _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
