[wplug-board] February Board Meeting

[Ted Rodgers]

Michael Semcheski wrote:
> Hi Vance,
>
> I don't think you are any more to blame for the lack of focus in the
> board meetings than anyone else.  You may not be experienced, but you
> will be eventually.
>   
Vance, you're doing fine.  It's the organization thats is chaotic.


> If we could get all of the committees to start meeting regularly and
> doing some of the work the board has been doing, that would be great
> -- even if the only ones on the committees were board members.
>
> As an example:
> The Program Committee comes up with a proposed list of meeting dates
> for the following six months.  The board votes on them and approves or
> rejects them.  We can have a short discussion, but we should not spend
> much of the board meeting looking at calendars and figuring out what
> dates work.  We shouldn't be setting individual dates.
>
>   
It's just an example, but the Program Committee has set dates 3 times 
now ... and yet every meeting we are wasting time "confirming" that it's 
done. 

> But, the committees aren't going to start themselves up.  I think it
> might require each board member to head up a committee.  There are six
> committees listed on the wiki.  One of them is the investigating
> committee, which can act on an as-needed basis.  That leaves five
> other committees, and five board members.
>   
Board members are already heading up the committees.  We've already been 
over this.  At some point it needs to be stated in simple English that 
the board is tired of being the only acting / active members of committees.


On other matters, there should be a limit on board meeting length.  I 
think 1.5 hours should be reasonable; I'll negotiate a bit on that, but 
for normal board meetings we don't have so much going on that we need 3 
hours at every meeting.  Getting the committee "meetings" out of the 
board meeting would certainly help with this.  Also, while not all 
discussion is bad, 45 minute discussions over everything is ridiculous.

Ted