+1
Whether to record meetings is a separate question from whether to release the recordings publicly.
We have seen a lot of disagreement among Trustees recently. That's a massive and *entirely avoidable* distraction for the movement. Please, start recording the meetings -- if only for the benefit of Trustees and their (understandably fallible) memories.
And please revisit the question of whether or not to release some of those video recordings publicly -- but not urgently. That part can wait until after some more pressing things have been sorted out.
I have yet to hear a good argument why recording meetings (irrespective of whether the recordings are made public) would be a bad thing.
-Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 7:15 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, jytdog jytdog@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
This is my first posting here. Sorry if I do anything wrong.
I wanted to note here the following post from James Heilman:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082816.html
And I guess this one too
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-February/082763.html
I fully understand what folks have said about the unworkability of videotaping meetings, and I also understand and appreciate what Risker wrote about minutes being legal documents that need to reviewed and approved by all.
At the same time, some enduring record seems essential. Recordings that are not made public, but that can be used to verify when things like the above happen? So not open, but recorded?
What is really hard about those two posts, is the irresolvable
differences
in statements that were made about those events. Really hard.
I agree.
Start recording now, for private use of the board and associated staff to save them time and so at least the internal disputes are about what was meant rather than what was actually said.
And push the "open" part part of this topic until further down the road, when there is a little more bandwidth to evaluate it properly.
-- John Vandenberg
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