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On 10:26 Fri 06 Feb , Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> While dberkholz does a great job of putting together an agenda, |
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> organizing the meeting and even putting together a summary afterwards, |
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> it seems that he's quiet busy lately (hence the missing logs/summary of |
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> the last two meetings). |
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> For my understanding this is too much of a burden for one person and I'd |
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> propose that we have a changing President/Chairman (who'll prepare the |
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> agenda) and a changing Secretary (who'll upload the logs and do the |
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> summary). With the current ~100 meetings a year everyone of us would |
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> have to do the summary and the agenda 14-15 times a year. |
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To provide some context, I basically began doing these two roles by |
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default when I was first elected to the council, since nobody else was |
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particularly interested. |
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I agree that splitting president and secretary into separate roles is a |
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great idea. I feel strongly that rotating these positions often will |
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result in both roles being ineffective, because it takes time to get |
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even decent at either of them. Does anyone want to return to the 4-hour |
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meetings we used to have? |
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To make these most effective, I propose that they be chosen once per |
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election period by council vote, beginning with the next election. If |
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only one person is interested in either role, that person gets it. Also |
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if either spot opens up, we can hold an election for it. For example, I |
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am happy to "vacate" the secretary role because as Tiziano said, I've |
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been falling behind on it lately, so we could have a quick vote on the |
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newly open spot. |
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By rotating over a longer period, we ensure that the opportunity is |
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available for new people, but we don't rotate so often that nobody ever |
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gets things completely figured out. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |