[wplug-board] Re: [wplug-members] Draft Minutes for WPLUG Board Meeting, 7/12/2006

[Patrick Wagstrom]

On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 10:00 -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to "David Ostroske" <eksortso at gmail.com>:
> > On 7/20/06, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
> > > In response to "David Ostroske" <eksortso at gmail.com>:
> > > > Here are the draft minutes for the WPLUG Board meeting held on July 12th, 2006.
> > >
> > > Notes/revisions inline.
> > 
> > [...]
> > > > REPORTS AND BUSINESS
> > > > * PHP class
> > > > Bill reported that 2 people signed up for his PHP class, beyond the
> > > > number already enrolled as part of the commission for the course.
> > >
> > > Actually, I reported that 2 people _total_ had signed up.  In the end,
> > > there were 5, but at the time of the board meeting, I thought there
> > > were only going to be 2.
> > 
> > I'm a little confused here. Let's say that there were N students
> > originally slated to take the course, and an additional number signed
> > up or attended later on.
> > 
> > Do you mean that there were 5 people who ultimately signed up for the
> > course, beyond the original N students?
> > 
> > Or do you mean that 5 people, beyond the N, attended the course, but
> > only 2 of those 5 had signed up as of the time of your report?
> > 
> > Or both? Or neither?
> 
> Neither.  There is no N.  Forget about N.  It's very simple.
> 
> As of last week's board meeting, I had been told that there were a total
> of 2 students signed up for the course.  There's no +, no N.  Just 2,
> period.
> 
> When I taught the course, there were 5 students.  
> 
> It's funny how simple concepts are often the most difficult to
> communicate.

I'm confused about why this is even relevant for the minutes in the
first place.  It's neither a decision nor an action made by the board.
It doesn't follow up on previous meetings.  Sounds like discussion which
should *not* be in the minutes.

--Patrick