On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 07:00:18PM +0100, Johan Engelen wrote: > 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.
First Monday would probably be easier for folks to include in their schedules. Thanks for coordinating the meetings. > 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
