Can we start with just informal meetings then, and see how that goes? I can schedule a Jenkins job that sends an email every first of the month, or every first monday of the month, etc. Whatever you guys think is nice.
Ciao, Johan On 30-10-2014 11:31, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 07:41:14PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote: >> I remember Martin's "board-aggravation" email pretty well, and (if >> perhaps by the wrong method) it made me realize that I, we, the >> board, should take our responsibilities more seriously (or should >> step down if I don't want that). >> >> For me, regular meetings could help reach timely responses or >> decisions. I think it will help underline the responsibilities as a >> board member, especially now that we start looking into funded >> development. > > Ok, back to the topic of meetings. > > I completely agree with you that the "board-aggrevation" emails were a > wake-up call that we weren't doing that great of a job. To be fair, up > until that point the demands had also been fairly modest, and we were > all pretty inexperienced. > > To me, the take-away was not a lack of meetings, but a lack of > leadership. And that was my fault. I vowed to step it up, and help > move us forward on some of the various needs at hand. It's a ton of > work we need though, and my freetime is pretty sparse, so it's been a > slow slog. But I've been driving ever forward through the list, and > haven't any intention of stopping. > > With all this said, if folks still think regular (non-mandatory) > meetings are worthwhile, I'm open to giving it a go. Either formal ones > (with agendas, minutes and action items) or just informal > brainstorming/bull sessions. Whichever structure, someone will need to > take the duty of sending reminders (else I'll guarantee they won't stay > very 'regular'), and you'll need to make sure the discussions are logged > and posted publically. > > Bryce > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
