Lists (Re: [wplug-plan] Bylaws, the Board, and the Lists)

[David Ostroske]

According to the bylaws:

    Online decision making

            Except for emergency situations and such meetings as the
    Board may later designate, all decisions of the Board shall be
    made online via a Board List or Lists.  The Board may establish
    the Board List as two separate sub-lists, a "Discussion  List"
    that is exclusively for discussion and a "Decision List" for the
    submission of specific proposals to be approved and the recording
    of "polling" results.  All discussion among the Directors
    concerning Board matters and proposals before the Board shall be
    held on such list(s), which shall be exclusively for the use of
    the Board, with an exception being that read access shall be
    provided to WPLUG participants.  The list(s) archive shall
    constitute the minutes and record of decision.

So then, all proposals are decided upon in the Decision List (wplug-board), no 
matter what. If two lists are set up, online discussions are held on the 
Discussion List. Anyone not on the Board can only read the list traffic.

If the Board debated some point online in the chat room, then it wouldn't count 
as a valid meeting, because no minutes would be recorded. If the Board debated 
on wplug-plan, then it wouldn't count because anyone can respond to messages 
posted by Board members; i.e. wplug-plan isn't exclusive to the Board.

That's too bad, since wplug-plan has always been used to make decisions in the 
past. Then again, we've never had fixed "Board meetings," per se. 

The bylaws ought to be amended to allow debate to carry out over wplug-plan, 
while requiring summary "minutes" and voting to be posted to wplug-board. That 
way, decisions will still be made the way they have been done in the past, but 
with the formality of minutes and voting on wplug-board to make them official.

My $0.02, at least.

--- Dave Ostroske
    eksortso at telerama.com

Quoting Zach Paine <zman at wplug.org>:

> > 3) Finally (and this might actually be the Board's first order of
> > business, but
> > nothing prevents anyone from discussing it), how will the mailing
> lists
> > be set
> > up? Will all business take place on the plan list? Or will there be
> > special
> > lists just for Board business?
> 
> wplug-board at wplug.org will be the new list.  I believe that list will
> exist
> purely for voting needs, and discussion will take place here and at
> real
> space board meetings.  I believe this is outlined in the bylaws.  Am I
> correct?
> 
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