Re: [gentoo-dev] Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June]

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 14:58 Wed 11 Jun     , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Carefully note the Preparation sections. If they aren't completed, we
> will postpone the topic to the -council mailing list or the next meeting
> instead of waste time during the meeting doing things that should've
> happened in advance.
>
> Please respond with any suggestions, including suggested order of the
> topics by urgency (within "old topics" and "new topics"). Unfortunately
> not all of the topics were posted to the council meeting reminder
> thread, so it was hard to dig them out.

amne talked to me and said he won't be able to post to any mailing lists 
before the meeting because he's at work, although he will be able to 
read them. I realize it was pretty late notice on the agenda, and the 
preparation+consequences is a new concept that we haven't all agreed on.

The idea behind posting to the list in advance is twofold -- holding 
council members accountable for:

 1) Knowing the relevant information, and

 2) Participating in the source discussion if they have anything new to
    add, rather than bringing it up during the meeting.

What we don't want is people speaking up at the meeting with previously 
unheard opinions or asking about already discussed topics, either of 
which often create prolonged discussions.

The alternative to posting in advance is that you agree with an opinion 
that's already out there and will not bring up anything new during the 
meeting. That's my interpretation of people not posting, and that's 
perfectly fine.

In the future, every council meeting should become little more than a 
time to hold a vote on predefined options for each topic. In fact, if we 
could get that far, we might not even need live meetings at all anymore 
It could all be on-list, or even using votify.

Thanks,
Donnie
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