[Eg-oversight-board] Thoughts for today's Evergreen Oversight Board meeting

[McKinney, Elizabeth]

Dan,

 Very good. I do have one agenda item that I want to bring up at the beginning of the meeting in addition to agenda items we discussed at the last Oversight Board meeting.

Elizabethp

On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:

> Galen and I put our heads together to brainstorm some ideas for what we
> might want to discuss at this afternoon's meeting; Ben Hyman dropped in
> as well. 
> 
> I should also note that during a quick discussion with Elizabeth, Stephen
> Elfstrand and Bradley Kuhn we thought we should be open to others
> observing our meeting for the sake of transparency and openness, but
> would be able to go in-camera if we needed to discuss any sensitive
> matters.
> 
> So... a summary of ideas that we floated for discussion:
> 
> * Increasing fund raising opportunities
> 
> * Appoint someone(s) to work with the SFC to create branded materials
>  for advocacy / outreach (stickers) & fund-raising (shirts, hats,
>  pant suits)
> 
> * Formally create a membership & elections committee
> 
> * Formally create a nominating committee
> 
> * Extend the deadline for promulgating rules for voting membership and
>  Board member elections to the end of the Evergreen 2013 conference
> 
> * Give incoming members the ability to introduce themselves and their
>  aspirations on Saturday morning
> 
> * Board officer elections - to be held at the first meeting after the
>  conference?
> 
> * Ways to spend money and / or projects for the coming year, beyond the
>  annual conference:
>  ** Investigate possibility of hiring a body through SFC - primarily a
> funding issue
>    *** A Debian Developer for packaging and maintaining Evergreen
>    *** QA manager
>    *** UI specialist
>    *** Someone to upgrade dependencies (e.g. stale version of CDBI)
>  ** Sponsor students to attend EG conference
>  ** Collaborative funding for development projects
>  ** Increase the percentage we give to the SFC
>  ** Testing server infrastructure
> 
> * Create a quick'n'dirty five-point strategic plan that we can report
>  back on next year