[Foundation-l] open IRC meeting w/ Wikimedia Trustees: this Friday, 1800 UTC

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/8 Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Michael Snow<wikipedia at verizon.net> wrote:
>> It does, but this is not an official meeting for the board to conduct
>> business, it's a meeting to provide people in the community with a
>> chance to have a discussion with the new board members. As such, I'm not
>> sure it's meaningful to have minutes, but as mentioned it will be an
>> open meeting and I'd think there should be no objection to publishing
>> the entire log. And if "minutes" is taken to mean simply a summary of
>> the discussion, no doubt that would be welcome as well.
>
> So, I just heard that this wasn't an official meeting after posting my message.
>
> It seems pretty bizarre that the balance of the board first heard
> about this meeting in the public announcement. I hope this isn't how
> the Wikimedia Board of Trustees is going to conduct its business from
> now forward.

The announcement makes it clear this is intended for the new board
members introduce themselves to the community and have a chat with
them, there is no real need for the rest of the board to have been
involved in the planning. I don't see why you thought it was an actual
board meeting.