Samuel Klein wrote:
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 3:07 PM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
In the past, Sam has said that private
solicitation of Board members to
introduce a resolution was the best approach.
*Public* solicitation, actually. I can't think of any reason to privately
solicit individual Board members.
Proposed resolutions should be drafted in public on Meta.
What I believe I said is: the policy for moving to vote on a Board
resolution is simple (per
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Vote:Board_deliberations ) : any
resolution that two Trustees move/second for a vote will be reviewed and
voted on within ~3 weeks.
My apologies. I read your previous suggestion during the travel guide
discussion and the only real route for communicating with a Board member to
solicit a proposal seemed to me to be private user-to-user e-mail. Are there
other (a)venues available? Should people be using wiki user talk pages for
this?
At some point, there's a (somewhat awkward) divide between the way other
non-profit boards operate and wiki culture. E-mail seemed like the only
logical bridge in this context, but perhaps there are better solutions.
Drafting resolutions on Meta-Wiki sounds good. Does the Board do that? (-:
Developers use
Bugzilla to track issues. I'm not sure what Board members
use. Mandatory notification prior to bylaws changes seems like an issue
that
has suffered from poor issue tracking, as a request that ultimately needs a
(Board) resolution. Perhaps a page at Meta-Wiki could track such requests?
How about a Board board?
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BN
:-)
MZMcBride