[Wikimedia-l] Board resolutions on bylaw amendments and appointment of Foundation staff officers

[Samuel Klein]

Briefly:

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Lodewijk <lodewijk at effeietsanders.org>wrote:

> Hi SJ,
>
> to boldly push my question again: do I understand from this correctly there
> was at this instance (in your opinion) no urgency


There is always some urgency to fix problems once a fix is identified - for
instance, it was good to immediately get some of Bishakha's time back from
administrative work.  And we would have made other changes (such as no
longer allowing non-recusal abstentions on votes, to match what Florida law
recognizes) in practice immediately, even if we did not officially pass
those bylaws changes.

But perhaps your question is misdirected: the issue of transparency is not
related to urgency. The bylaws already require 10 days notice; we just need
to make this public.

Let's take further discussion to the board manual talk page, to bring it
closer to any procedural changes that get implemented.

SJ