On 23:34 Tue 10 Feb     , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 10:20 Sat 07 Feb     , Roy Bamford wrote:
> > There is no need for the secretary to be a member of the council as 
> > long as the person in that role takes no part in the councils decision 
> > making process.
> > 
> > The council could recruit a secretary from outside of themselves, or 
> > even outside of gentoo. An external recruit would need to become a 
> > gentoo staff member to be really useful, so they could have commit 
> > access to coucil web space.
> > 
> > The Foundation has seen all that happen.
> 
> This option works for me. In fact it's probably better that a person is 
> relatively less involved, since they'd hopefully be able to write a bit 
> more objectively. Also council members aren't distracted during the 
> meeting with taking notes.

I've invited tanderson to come to today's meeting. I would like to cover 
this topic first so that we can figure out who's taking notes for the 
remainder of the meeting.

At least initially, I would like to require a council review period 
(let's say 1 day after it's sent) before summaries go out.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com