2008/12/14 Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org>rg>:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 5:49 AM, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
From Sue's report, I understood that the
current practice is to have board
minutes approved only on the next board meeting. In practice that means a
delay of several months. In a quickly changing world as ours, that is quite
a long time span.
That's a fairly standard practice. How would you approve the minutes
without holding a meeting? (Sure, you could do it using a unanimous consent
resolution, but that's certainly not typical.)
It's also not typical to have a large group of very committed and
interested volunteers wanting to know what's going on. Approving the
minutes by email would seem perfectly practical to me.
Publishing a draft of the minutes (or an informal
summary of the meeting)
would be one thing. Approving the official minutes is quite another.
Are the meetings considered confidential? If not, there's nothing stopping
any board member from providing a summary at any time. If so, well, then
why publish the minutes in the first place?
It may not be wise to publish unapproved minutes - if there are
mistakes, the consequences could be rather unfortunate.