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> On 3 May 2021, at 20:19, Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 2021-05-03 20:12, Sam James wrote: |
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>> I think we’re worrying about a non-problem (some hypothetical |
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>> legal dispute(!?)). The council |
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>> Is free to discuss what it likes. Someone has raised the issue, |
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>> so why not? |
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>> Reminder that none of us are lawyers and the council’s job |
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>> is to debate things. Let’s not be shy about it doing that. |
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> No, this is wrong. |
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Which part is actually wrong…? I’m saying that we don’t need to worry about strange non-legal issues |
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in order for the council to discuss or debate a topic. |
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> During a council meeting, only council members should speak. Everyone else has to wait for the open floor at the end. |
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> Therefore, to allow others to participate, any discussion should happen before meeting on public mailing list to allow *everyone* to participate. |
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> Having an exclusive discussion between 7 people is really not the idea of the council. That said, creating a motion during meeting when nobody else had the chance to comment on before because nobody knew the motion before, is strongly discouraged. |
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Right, of course. |
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> That's why I am proposing to move this to open floor... |
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> I also want to remind us of the fact that we agreed during constitution to have focused meetings [1] and I believe an open agenda item like this discussion where we can do nothing goes against focused meetings. |
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I’m not sure where we’re disagreeing here? |
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(Also, I always interpreted “open floor” as “council members may discuss anything, not worrying about the agenda” - not anyone can speak, but that may have been wrong.) |
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> [1] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20200719.txt |
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> Regards, |
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> Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer |
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